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    Nepal: Backsliding on Rights

    Nepal’s political and peace processes remained stalled in 2011, resulting in instability, weak governance, and a lack of progress on accountability for human rights violations.
     

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    Nepal's political and peace processes remained stalled in 2011, resulting in instability, weak governance, and a lack of progress on accountability for human rights violations. The government appointed people allegedly guilty of serious rights violations to senior positions. It said it would grant amnesties for those accused of war crimes, and moved to withdrawal such cases currently before the courts. Positively, the government passed a caste-based Discrimination and Untouchability (Crime and Punishment) Bill to protect Dalit rights, and it took steps to ensure legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Drafting a constitution to address longstanding political, social, ethnic, and economic inequalities has been stalled due to political instability.

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  • Nepal: Backsliding on Rights
    Jan 23, 2012

    Nepal’s political and peace processes remained stalled in 2011, resulting in instability, weak governance, and a lack of progress on accountability for human rights violations.
     

  • Letter to Deputy Prime Minister Re: Impending Forced Evictions from Squatter Settlements on the Bagmati River
    Jan 20, 2012
  • Nepal: The Power of Money
    Dec 12, 2011

    After a long wait for political parties to get their act together, there have been some important developments in the faltering peace process since the formation of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in August this year.  

  • Nepal: Extend Mandate of UN Human Rights Office
    Dec 5, 2011

    The Nepali government should extend the mandate of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR), Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said today.  

  • Nepal: No Amnesties for Wartime Abuses
    Dec 1, 2011
    Five years after the end of Nepal’s civil war, victims are still waiting for justice, Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum said in a joint report released today.  
  • Children With Disabilities: Please Stay Home
    Sep 21, 2011
    Countries around the globe have pledged to provide primary education for all children by 2015, as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Yet according to the UN, children with disabilities represent more than one-third of the 67 million children who are not in school worldwide.
  • Nepal: wrong trail, right track
    Sep 20, 2011

    The return to democracy in Nepal after the decade-long civil war has been bumpy. The question of amnesty for crimes committed during the war now faces the new Maoist-led government with a key choice .

  • Nepal's elusive justice
    Sep 16, 2011
    The decade-long conflict in Nepal was riddled with egregious violations of human rights law and the laws of war on both sides. When the war ended in 2006, victims were suddenly hopeful that the promise of accountability embedded in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement would lead to justice.
  • Nepal: Cancel Pact for Wartime Amnesty
    Sep 1, 2011
    Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai of Nepal and his government should honor commitments, both by the government and by the Maoist party, to ensure that perpetrators of human rights abuses during and after the country’s armed conflict are held accountable before courts of law.
  • Nepal: Joint Letter to Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
    Sep 1, 2011

    As you assume the mantle of the highest office in Nepal, with only three months left in the mandate of the Constituent Assembly, we write to you to reiterate our longstanding request that the government makes accountability for human rights abuses before, during, and after the conflict in Nepal an urgent priority. This includes ensuring that those responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture and ill treatment, enforced disappearances, and other serious human rights abuses and crimes under international law are investigated and brought to justice in fair trials.

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