Tonight mare

I don't know what the hell is happening...I can't sleep whole night because of nightmares.
Why the world is so selfish? Why should I keep other happy to be happy myself? Why I have to think about others before my own happiness? Dont I have any rights to take my own decision. Why I have to pretend the world that everything is ok?
I know life is unpredictable but it's more uncertain to me, my dreams and my desires.
Everyday I cry for no reason, everyday I think for no reason, everyday my mind get tired of keeping you, you and you happy... where am I?
If I stay at home, do household and eat without working then I am a gold digger and if I go out to earn money and feed you then I am enacting a drama, and If I get to know your true colors, stop feeding you and minding my own business then I am selfish or egoistic.
Sometimes I literally feel like tolerating all the mental tortures, sucide is the most easiest way to rid of...
What if I do sucide? Or what if I let people around me to sucide! Nothing nothing matters to you all...but it matters when it come to live happily.
People wants to variefy my status seeing photo in social media. Why huh why! Why I have to give the proof of having healthy relationship if I haven't.
I wonder if I can pray to a god, to give all the success, happiness,my sleep and dreams to the people who always slander me, God bless you people.
Then obviously I will pray for them who are next to me, to support me.
Please let me live my life, I am fucking going crazy and it is completely shattering me form inside. I don't want to be part of this stereotypes while I am dieing inside. It completely sucks

Rights to know about disease. (short experience visiting prison)

The interaction program was about causes and prevention measures of Dengue and communicable diseases at District jail, kaski pokhara. The program was organized by INSEC and citizen social network for peace and security collaborating with district health office. In prison there were 3 blocks A, B and C with 815 prisoners in total where the jail have the capacity of living only 400 people. For that the INSEC has been taking initiative steps for prison maintenance and facilities.  In the program, the head of district jail Mr. Ganesh Gautam shared his congested experience inside jail through that the jailers may have a different problems as well as health problem.

  Mr. Nani Babu Khadka was the officer from District health office delivered speech onm the importance and care of our health. Mr. Yam Baral from health office interacted with the prisoners about health issues and dengue. While the organizers, INSEC provincial coordinator Mr. Shiva Khakurel run the program and end up the program delivering speech on caring themselves and sharing knowledge with everyone by Mr. Bishnu Prasad Baral the coordinator of citizen social network for peace and security.

   

There were three interaction program held same day, there were 382 people living there in each jail block A and B and 58 women were living in block C. But from block B only 42 people were participated because of congested area. From block A which is the oldest prison of district more than 100 participants were participated in play ground. Likewise in block C there were around 30 participants. In whole program, Mr. Yam Baral discussed about the causes and symptoms of dengue and if the person get infected the curing process and some tips of living safe, clean and creating good environment for any kind of communicable diseases.  

All the prisoners were so happy and concentrate the entire program calmly. Also they were thankful to the organizers.

It was my first experience visiting prison. Before visiting I was nervous and curious about the environment inside it. After I visit the prison I felt it to be like Hostel. But because of high population it was uncomfortable inside.

my experience in INSEC (case stydy)

Case study

Mrs. Sangita  Sunuwar is a wife of Mr. Hira Prasad Sunuwar has got two daughters lives in lekhnath pokhara kaski . He was married to a woman before marrying her to whom he killed and was jailed for 21 days. Sangita was unknown about his past. She had an arranged marriage with him. Since eight years she was tolerating his behaviors. She was quiet because of family relatives and society. Her daughters who are just four and six years are also humiliated by him. His regular activities beating, sexually abusing, using vulgar words and dominating are usually same. Even he has molested his own children time and again. He always threatens to kill her.

 On June 7 evening Mr. Hira Prasad Sunuwar was drunk, he beat her and sexually abused in front of their children. She was full naked in front of her daughter and told her to get out of house. Discussing on family matter he threw knife on Mrs. Sangita Sunuwar, while blocking the knife, her finger got injured. Frightening and screaming she went to her neighbors but no one helped her. While her finger was bleeding he got scared and he ran away at his parent home (Baglung).  Mrs. Sangita works as a tailor so she is self dependent women and her husband was dependent upon her. He always asks money with her. Most of the time she used to borrowed money from her parents to feed her children and husband. If she refused to bring money from her parent’s home he continues to threaten to kill and rape her and their children.  On June 8^th she along with her mother filed complaint in Dadakonakh police station.  Police station delayed the process.

 On 11^th of June she along with her mother and some friends knocked the door of INSEC kaski, pokhara.  Program coordinator Mrs. Sabnam Sharma and District Representative Mr. Sushan Ghimire  along with FK fellows helped her for further process. Mrs. Sabnam Sharma helped her to file a complaint in district police office, same day they called Mr. Hira Prasad Sunuwar. He was informed to have his presence in the police station as soon as possible. He talked softly with police officers and became ready to report in police station with his family.  On June 14 he present on district police office, asked for forgiveness with her and her parents.  Before 4 month she had complaint in village development committee for the same reasons. Both of them signed a compromise paper but the incident happened again. So, she decided not to forgive him again. And finally she has decided to claim a protest.

note:  Name of victim and is changed

Public hearing program organized by INSEC

                                   On July 5, 2019 INSEC organized a public hearing program will all the local people, media, state and non state organizations. The program was mainly focused to inform local people about their fundamental rights of food, health and education also to make answerable to the   responsible governmental guild organizations at Myagde Municipality in Tanahu.

Mr. shiva khakurel the provincial coordinator welcomed all the guest, local people, state and non state guild organization and media by delivering a speech and reason of having public hearing program. The people from myagde rural municipality not to deprived from the rights on Education, Health and food also to make answerable to the responsible guild organization on their unsatisfactory.

Mr. Bal Krishna main officer of Rural Municipality present a presentation about the implementation of work that has done and the work plan for 2076/2077. According to his presentation, rural municipality has been working in different sectors like community development work, several trainings for empowering men and women like tailor, animal husbandry, farming etc. He shared several progress reports on education. Different health facility has been provided in village. Even there are different health posts on each VDC’s, technical facility like computer and internet are also provided in Health Post. Rural municipality Organized different health camps collaborating with Gandaki Medical hospital, Pokhara. Economical and Agricultural development progress report was shown. Alike, most of the people are engaged in farming, Animal husbandry and agricultural they have been trained and working on it. Same hoe tourism also under the economical development. He discussed about the upcoming work plan for 2076/77. Health plan, Agriculture and Animal husbandry Plan and agriculture tourism are the major subjects to be amplified and developed.

District coordination committee Mr. Santi Raman wagle marked the Act of constitution 21, 35 and 36 that government guaranteed to provide the rights of Education, Health and Food. Also appreciated the program organized by INSEC.  

Likewise, the president of VDC Mr. Bir Bhadur Nepali delivered as Myagde village most of the people are engaged in Agriculture so the system should be more technical and developed. Also the villagers are depended upon potato farming rather than focusing on only one item people should irrigate mustard oil, orange, guava irrigation etc. He praised to reduce the price of groceries, school fees and crime.

Likewise village Development Committee (VDC), wards no. 11 Secretary asked to have a clean drinking water. Mr. Birendra Prasad wagle also talk about the same topics that Mr. Bir bahadur nepali except that he asked to have property right in Constitution.

People vigilance committee main president Mr. Ram Saran Mahat asked for doing public awareness program and more training from government. Mr. Omkar president of Nepal patra argued on Education sector that it is free. But the fees of the schools are so high. Ward no. 7 Shri Prasad Wagley was also focused on school facility that some children go to study without having lunch, so they need to be served snacks in school.

 Mr. Shri Prasad Ghimire informed about the vegetables are irrigating using pesticides and insecticides which is the poison in our life so he request all the people and the guild organization to have a public awareness program  about it and the also to the farmers to irrigate organic vegetables which is healthy and tasty.

The president of Rural Municipality Ms. Maya Rana appreciated and thank to INSEC to have such program in rural municipality. She is the women president in rural municipality. She confides to work on Drinking Water and request all the local people to motivate and encourage government laws so that they can do much better.

Finally the chief guest of the program Mr. Kedar sigdel the Member of Parliament federation shared his experience on upbringings. Government is working with more projects on Education health and food.

At last, the president of People Vigilance group Mr. Bhim Bahadur BK ended the program by his closing speech. He asked support from state and non-state organizations for bringing new projects. Also shared the fundamental rights of people about having rights on education, health and food can’t avoid by government.

Nepal Youth Council (NYC) take the initiative way to mobilize youths from local level

Gandaki provincial youth conference

                         

On June 28, the president of provincial youth council Ms. Monika Ranabhat along with her team Nepal Youth Council (NYC) organized a program Youth Conference in Santinagar Banquet collaborating with many governmental and non-governmental organizations. In the beginning, the program was started by the congratulations speech from different people from different organization where the main chief guest was Chief Minister Mr. Prithvi subba Gurung also congratulate them for having such grand program and deliver his speech on Youth participation on development and recommend youth as a pillar of country.

Well in the program there were around 300 participants belongs to the 11 districts of Gandaki Province. Main objectives of the Program was for Making the Nepalese youth strong, competent, competitive and self-reliant, to build a modern, just and affluent Nepal through their meaningful participation and promotion of their leadership capacity.

    

There was a different topic of discussion like Sustainable development goals, Tourism (visit Nepal 2020), Information and technology, Climate Change, Youth and Politics and Youth entrepreneurship in Nepal. And the mission of all these discussion with youth is for:

·         Youth Participation, Collaboration and Leadership Development

·         Life-skill Education, Employment, Health and Security,

·         Access, Equality, Social justice and Capacity Building of Youth

·         Competent Human Resource, Peaceful and Prosperous Nation

Somehow the discussion might help youths to feel their responsibility towards country on different sector. The program was organized in provincial level to enhance the power of youth and demonstrate on the objectives of program;

·         To Develop and expand the role of the youth and their prospects in nation building and national development,

·         To highlight the competence inherent in the youth class by establishing them as the basic power of the nation through the development of creativity, entrepreneurship and investigative competence in them,

·         To prepare competent youth who are of ethical, cultural, creative and professional nature through proper development of their physical, mental, intellectual, ethical and emotional sides by developing the culture of respecting labor,

·         To guarantee the basic rights of the youth and ensure their access to productive resources, to involve them at all levels of policy and decision-making and implementation relating to political, economic, social and cultural sectors and to establish the youth as the agents of national development by promoting their leadership capacity through gender equality,

·         To bring the youths belonging to the priority and the special priority groups in the main stream of development by empowering them through the means of positive discrimination.

Discussion on different topics on different objectives and mission to the youth. Hope it works sucessfully.

Proposed act of media council for press freedom, against hostile provision

               The interaction program was at the Federation of Journalists in Kaski, Pokhara. They said their struggle to fight against the government’s plan to control the media but they will continue to fight until the Media Council Bill is withdrawn from Parliament.

As part of their continuing struggle, the Kaski district media council organized an interaction program on 21^st of jestha with stakeholders and experts, including editors of major mainstream publications.

The Media Council Bill, which aims to replace the existing press council Act and was registered in parliament, will have greater authority to issue hefty fines and give the government more say in the hiring and firing of the council members.

The proposed bill aims to give sweeping powers to the self-regulatory body overseeing the press, and information rights activists and journalists have been saying that the new council could increase direct attacks on the press.

                                     

In the program most of the people were against the bill which is aiming to give the council authority to issue monetary punishment ranging from Rs 25,000 to one million rupees. The provisions in the proposed Media Council Bill will also give the council greater power to write to the concerned authority to take action against media organizations if they violate press ethics as defined by the government.

Some of the journalists like the idea of the integration of the media group. They shared how media persons should be calm and have to follow the code of conduct. Therefore the Press Council could ask for clarification, apologize, and blacklist certain press organizations. 

                                                                                                               by: Anu Baskota (FK Fellow)

Engaging the youth in politics

                                                                                                       The Youth Parliament practice workshop was designed to run 4 days (jestha 21 to 24) at the District Coordination Committee in Pokhara, Kaski. The program was organized by Nepal government collaborating with youth and sports ministry and national youth council and managed by district youth committee.

It was a really new experience for me to participate in such a program.  The experience of preparing for and running a designed Youth Parliament is a good opportunity to practice management skills and to learn about the past and current situation of country. It will them to think a future plan or sustainable goals . It was all designed to be similar to the actual running of Parliament. The participants were given 2 months to learn the acts, constitutional law, power and rights, knowledge about parliamentary committees, current situation of the country, governments work, incidents happening in the country, legal and illegal works, etc. The federal parliament of Nepal is the federal and supreme legislative body of Nepal. It is a bicameral federal legislature that consists of the National Assembly as upper house and the House of Representatives, as lower house. 

There were all together 32 participants, ten of them were selected through an online test published by national youth council and the other twenty-two were from eleven districts means two person were selected from each district. There were five mentors from the national youth council to monitor them. They were all organized inside hall like as parliament house. They made up all the categories inside a regular parliament house in Nepal. The leadership committee included the president, vice president, chairman of the national Assembly, deputy Chairman of the National Assembly, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Deputy Speaker.  

The first relates to the concern that few young people know about: the Commonwealth. The three core principles that bind our Commonwealth nations together are: 

• Global Consensus Building

 • Support for Sustainable Development

 • Support for Democracy and Growth and Sustenance of Democratic Institutions

The Youth Parliament was designed to educate participants about the Commonwealth and to demonstrate how Parliaments are able to: 

 • Make legislation

 • Debate matters of national and international concern

 • Demand accountability from those in government

 • Discuss legislation in committee

• Change government without recourse to civil disorder

 • Make and enforce their own rules of conduct

The goals of the designed youth parliament are to visualize sustainability of youth future and enhance them to acknowledge the parliamentary system. Some of the points are as follows:

·         To hear the voice of youth between 18 and less than 25 years of age, who are allowed to vote but cannot stand as a candidate for election, through deliberations in Youth Parliaments at district level and above.

·         To encourage the youth to engage with public issues, understand the common man's point of view, form their opinions and express it in an articulate manner.

·         To develop and enhance decision making abilities.

·         To develop  a respect and tolerance for the views of others.

·         To develop an understanding that respect for rules is essential for conducting any discussion systematically and effectively.

·         To obtain and document their opinions and visions of New Nepal.

·         To share their views to policy makers to take forward.

Overall this program was implemented to encourage young people to take an interest in citizenship activities, specifically parliament, and improve young people's opportunities to be heard and make a difference.

                                                                                                                       by : Anu Baskota (FK fellow 2019)