2018 was a year of significant changes and consolidations of power in Nepal but one that left significant question marks over the progress on key measures of justice and equality. Parliamentary elections in late 2017 led to a comfortable majority for the new ‘Left Alliance’ platform involving both the CPN-Maoist and CPN-UML parties. With a strong majority government in place under the leadership of Prime Minister KP Oli, expectations were raised going into 2018 for effective and firm governance and progress on...