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Nepal Appeasing China Restricting the Rights of Tibetans in Nepal
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-365-X July 24, 2008 Download PDF, 1370 KB, 64 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book "As If I Am Not Human" Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
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Download PDF, 466 KB, 137 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “No One Has the Liberty to Refuse” Tibetan Herders Forcibly Relocated in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region This 79-page report documents how the government’s policy of forced resettlement has violated the economic and social rights of Tibetan herders. It draws on interviews conducted between July 2004 and December 2006 with some 150 Tibetans from the areas directly affected. HRW Index No.: C1908 June 11, 2007 Download PDF, 489 KB, 78 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Last Hope The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India This 86-page report discusses the possible solutions to this protracted refugee situation and the choices the refugees now face. It describes conditions of the ethnic Nepali refugees who have languished in exile in Nepal and India, and also documents continuing discrimination against the ethnic Nepalis still living in Bhutan, who live in fear that they too could be stripped of their citizenship and expelled from the country. HRW Index No.: C1907 May 17, 2007 Download PDF, 363 KB, 88 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Children in the Ranks The Maoists’ Use of Child Soldiers in Nepal This 72-page report describes how the Maoists in Nepal have continued using child soldiers, and even recruited more children, despite signing a Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the Nepali government on November 21. The peace agreement commits both sides to stop recruiting child soldiers. The report, which is based on interviews with former child soldiers and Nepali and international monitors, documents how children as young as 14 served on the front lines, received weapons training, and carried out crucial military and logistical support duties for the Maoists. HRW Index No.: C1902 February 1, 2007 Download PDF, 1300 KB, 74 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Clear Culpability “Disappearances” by Security Forces in Nepal This report documents more than 200 enforced disappearances perpetrated by the Nepali army and police and analyzes the factors responsible for the crisis. Human Rights Watch’s research indicates that the actual number of “disappearances” in Nepal may be significantly underreported, since many families had not reported the “disappearances” of their relatives to any other institution, and Human Rights Watch was the first organization they talked to about the “disappearances.” March 1, 2005 Download PDF, 438 KB, 86 pgs Purchase online Between a Rock and a Hard Place Civilians Struggle to Survive in Nepal’s Civil War This 102-page report details how civilians in contested areas are often faced with untenable choices. Refusal to provide shelter to the rebels puts villagers at risk from Maoists who are ruthless in their punishments, while providing such support leaves them vulnerable to reprisal attacks from state security forces. HRW Index No.: C1612 October 7, 2004 Download PDF, 508 KB, 104 pgs Purchase online Nepal: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict There were no indications of a policy of, or systematic recruitment below the age of 18 into the Royal Nepal Army (RNA). However, the government reportedly targeted children suspected of affiliation with the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist). Many children, some as young as 13, were taken into custody by security forces in connection with the insurgency and some remained unaccounted for. Some children were reportedly used as by government forces as informers. Children were also victims of the armed conflict through exposure to war remnants and explosives, or by being caught in crossfire. January 16, 2004 Trapped by Inequality Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal Bhutanese refugee women in Nepal encounter gender-based violence and systematic discrimination in access to aid.This 77-page report examines the uneven response of UNHCR and the government of Nepal to rape, domestic violence, sexual and physical assault, and trafficking of girls and women from refugee camps. These problems persist despite reforms UNHCR introduced after internal investigations uncovered “sexual exploitation” of refugee women and girls by aid workers in Nepal and West Africa in 2002. The Human Rights Watch report shows how Nepal’s laws constrain the prosecution of gender-based violence. Specific domestic violence legislation does not exist in Nepal. A 35-day statute of limitations and burdensome medical reporting procedures prevent rape victims from filing complaints with the police and pressing criminal charges. The same obstacles have prevented any prosecution of aid workers and Nepalese government employees accused of “sexual exploitation” in October 2002. HRW Index No.: C1508 September 24, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Nepal: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Children as young as 14 have been recruited, sometimes forcibly, by the underground Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The CPN (Maoist) leadership made a commitment not to recruit children in August 2000. The government does not officially recruit under-18s but some may enter the armed forces through irregular means. June 12, 2001 Nepal: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: There has been a significant increase in the use of homemade mines by Maoist rebels, and some reports of their use of factory-made mines. The Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines reports that people in ten districts consider themselves mine-affected. It remains unclear if the government maintains a stockpile of antipersonnel mines. August 1, 2000 Rape for Profit Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels At least hundreds of thousands, and probably more than a million women and children are employed in Indian brothels. Many are victims of the increasingly widespread practice of trafficking in persons across international borders. In India, a large percentage of the victims are women and girls from Nepal. This report focuses on the trafficking of girls and women from Nepal to brothels in Bombay, where nongovernmental organizations say they comprise up to half of the city's estimated 100,000 brothel workers. Twenty percent of Bombay's brothel population is thought to be girls under the age of eighteen, and half of that population may be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Trafficking victims in India are subjected to conditions tantamount to slavery and to serious physical abuse. Held in debt bondage for years at a time, they are raped and subjected to other forms of torture, to severe beatings, exposure to AIDS, and arbitrary imprisonment. June 1, 1997 Download PDF, 509 KB, 121 pgs Printer friendly version Rape for Profit Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India’s Brothels Hundreds of thousands of women and children are employed in Indian brothels—many of them lured or kidnapped from Nepal and sold into conditions of virtual slavery. The victims of this international trafficking network routinely suffer serious physical abuse, including rape, beatings, arbitrary imprisonment and exposure to AIDS. Held in debt bondage for years at a time, these women and girls work under constant surveillance. Escape is virtually impossible. Both the Indian and Nepali governments are complicit in the abuses suffered by trafficking victims. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-155-X June 1, 1995
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