Fellows & Editors
Abby Seiff
- Trip:
- Fellows 2016
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Nepal
- Year:
- 2016
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Abby Seiff is a freelance reporter who has been based in Southeast Asia since 2009. Her work focuses on religion, migration and the law. Most recently, she has written about Beijing’s crackdown on human rights lawyers, torture in Thailand’s Deep South, and climate change in Nepal. Her reporting and photography have appeared in a range of publications including Newsweek, the Guardian, Time, Al Jazeera, the Economist, and more. Prior to becoming a freelancer, she served as an editor for several years at The Cambodia Daily and the Phnom Penh Post.
Stories
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“If You Have Money, You Can Think Whatever You Want”
People in Nepal’s Thulopakhar village shudder to hear of a girl going to work abroad. Under their voices, neighbors mutter about sex work, abuse, impropriety. In this village, nestled beneath...
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The child brides of Nepal: why education alone is not enough to stop underage marriages
Inside the house of her husband’s parents, Apsara Devi Sah sits on a mat in a small, windowless storage room with a mud floor. Three days after her wedding she...
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In Nepal’s Towns Without Men, Women Take on Newfound Responsibility
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Two-and-a-half-year-old Ansuman Thatal wakes up from his nap with a start. He scans the room, and before anyone can comfort him, begins bawling: “Baba, baba, baba.” By...
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The Omnipresence of Dust in Kathmandu
It's the middle of winter, and the wards of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in downtown Kathmandu, Nepal, are full of people who can't breathe. {image-1} On the third-floor pediatrics ward,...
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Nepal: Economic migrants spark unlikely shifts in power
Each day, thousands of Nepalis fly out of Kathmandu for work. They serve in restaurants in Europe and farm plantations in East Asia, but an increasingly large percentage are employed in menial...
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A world without men? When men go abroad to work, women in Nepal take the lead at home.
Night has fallen inky black and cold over Amar Basti village, but Kalpana Thapa and her neighbors are loath to drift off to bed. They punch at their phones, pull shawls tighter...
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Are Qatar’s reform efforts falling short?
When Ranjit Kumar Sah finished his schooling in Nepal, Qatar was the natural next step. Though his village is so remote it takes half-an-hour to reach a paved road, it’s...
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