Nepal already has the Criminal Code 2071 article 121 and other prevalent laws which prohibit the production and dissemination of sexually obscene contents.
After facing numerous case of women being raped, sparking the MeToo movement, the country started preventing access of adult-related contents through electronic media.
The press statement was issued by the Ministry of Communication and Information technology (MOCIT), ordering the regulator Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) to ban porn websites.
Pulling down such websites inside Nepal has become necessary, as pornographic contents have become a threat to the socio-cultural aspects of the country as even adolescent children are becoming addicted to pornography, said a spokesperson for Nepal's National Telecommunication Association (NTA).
While several ISPs expressed their concern that it would be difficult to keep track on all porn sites the web has to give as new ones can come up every day, ISPs have started blocking some porn sites altogether.
This is not the first attempt by Nepal’s authorities to ban pornographic content.
Back in 2010, the government started prohibiting some of the websites that included the word "sex" in their content. But later found it not effective.
Nepal has its own share of discrimination, as most women in the country are considered beneath their men counterpart, below their husbands and fathers in a patriarchal society.
Most women in Nepal are treated poorly in every aspect of their society, whether it is social, political, or economic; they have been avoided or mistreated. Statistics include:
- More than 70 percent of violence against women are reported as being from within the family.
- More than 20 percent of women aged 15 to 49 have experienced physical violence at least once since age 15.
- More than 40 percent of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
- Between 5,000 and 12,000 girls and women are trafficked every year, with 75 percent of them are below the age of 18.
These issues are what feminists in the country are trying to address.
