Observation of the "Occupy Baluwatar Movement"

Since December 28, 2012, every morning from 9 to 11 AM , protesters from various youth clubs have gathered outside the Prime Ministers official residence in Baluwatar , Kathmandu, Nepal, standing solidarity to end gender-based violence in Nepal. Most of the youth clubs have united and started a movement knows as " Occupy Baluwatar Movement " in order to end the women violence in Nepal and to seek justice for each and every victim whose case has not been registered and solved .

      In order to observe the movement and to know about the initial situation about women violence in the country, we went to Baluwatar, Kathmandu, Nepal on 20th April 2013. The Occupy Baluwater Movement has reached it's 106 days of protest against injustice. Most of them have been protesting every morning,  right from the first day of this movement. Even after protesting for for 106 days, the government officials were not responding to their protests and they said that they will continue the movement until the Prime Minister of Nepal personally guarantees that the government will prevent the incidents of violence against women.

We had a plan to participate in the movement but it became too risky for us due to some problems as some of the people were even taken  in custody. After the observation we could see that how vast and deep the problem was and we got more empowered and dedicated  towards our project.