The cultures of Indigenous peoples across the world have traditionally depended on native plants and animals. It is when these culturally significant species start disappearing that the ways of life ...

Nepal’s authorities must immediately halt forced eviction of the Chepang people from their settlements and ensure that those responsible for the destruction of 10 homes are held accountable, Amnesty ...

Global Voices recently conducted a face-to-face interview with Gobindaram Chepang in January 2024, the Chairperson of the Nepal Chepang Association, to gather more information on the implications for ...

Many indigenous Chepang children of Simthali in Benighatrorang Rural Municipality in Dhading district have been deprived of two square meals and warm clothes due to acute poverty, orphaned state, and ...

The Navodaya School opened on Saturday. It is funded by local and foreign Catholic groups. It caters to the Chepang community, the poorest of Nepal’s indigenous communities, which has a 70 per cent ...

When Nepal's massive earthquake struck last week, student Milena Rabe was in the country's south working with one of the region's most marginalized minorities. She says the Chepang people are still ...

For decades, the Chepang lived in poverty in the forests of Chitwan District (central Nepal). Since 2011, a Catholic school educates their children, offering adults some job opportunities. Tribal ...