Lessons for Nepal, Three Years After Deadly Earthquake

Expand Abandoned houses, damaged during the 2015 earthquake, stand in Bhaktapur, Nepal April 21, 2017. Picture taken April 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Three years have passed since a violent earthquake shattered Nepal, leaving an estimated 9,000 people dead and many hundreds of thousands injured and homeless, yet the country is still far from recovery. In its prioritization of human rights, the government should include adequate support for those devastated by the April 25 disaster. In 2015, the response in Nepal and among its friends abroad in sending troops and equipment to help with the rescue…

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