Nepal, Feb. 17 -- As Nepal continues to rapidly experience social and cultural changes, the avenues for young people to become involved in unsafe sexual practices have been further widened. Especially with the proliferation of social media, adolescents are continually exposed to messages that promote unsafe and non-consensual sexual practices.

According to the United Nations Population Fund Nepal, seventeen percent of women aged between 15 and 19 years have experienced childbirth-and these statistics have largely remained consistent over the past five years. The rising rates of adolescent marriages and the pressure to rear children shortly after marriage directly intersects with many of Nepal's development challenges. This points to the ...