The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has unveiled its works related to transitional justice by organising a press meet here on Monday. The Commission has submitted its opinion prepared based on various discussions held at the national level and studies conducted at the international level for the fourth time to the sub-committee formed under the Law, Justice and Human Rights Commission for clause-wise discussions of the Bill on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, 2071 (third amendment). The main 11 points of the concept presented include truth-seeking and investigation, justice and prosecution, reparations and amnesty.
KATHMANDU: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to take transitional justice to conclusion soon. Saying conflict survivors have not yet got justice even after 17 years of Comprehensive Peace Accord, the NHRC requested to amend the transitional laws. The press release issued today by Spokesperson Dr Tikaram Pokharel reads, “Conflict survivors […]
Advocacy Forum has issued a press release demanding justice for those Maoist cadres and civilians who were brutally killed 20 years ago at Doramba in Ramechhap by the then Royal Nepali Army while the state and the Maoists were observing a ceasefire.
KATHMANDU: The Advocacy Forum (AF)-Nepal has voiced deep concern over the lack of progress in the Nirmala Panta case, which remains unsolved five years after the brutal rape and murder. In a press statement released today, AF highlighted the failure of the State to deliver justice to the victim. They are demanding an immediate, impartial, […]
Loan shark victims from different districts have gathered in Kathmandu since Monday to press the government for justice.
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ROLPA: CPN (Maoist Centre) leader Barshaman Pun said Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) should meaningfully collaborate to take the protracted transitional justice to a logical conclusion. At a press conference organized by the coalition partners in Rolpa district headquarters, Liwang, on Saturday, leader Pun said backlog of peace process would not complete without collaboration […]
KATHMANDU: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has demanded with the government to consider amendment in the Act related to transitional justice in line with international principles related to the same issue. Issuing a press statement here today, the human rights watchdog agency in the country also demanded that the amendment in the Act should […]
Nepal Democratic Lawyer’s Association (DLA) has called on all aware community to stand for people’s right to justice and for independent judiciary.
Issuing a press statement today, Association general secretary Laxmidevi Dahal appealed to the entire aware community for standing for people’s right to justice guaranteed by the Constitution and for the protection of independent judiciary.
“To date, the prestige and image of our judiciary and faith on it is glorious in the international arena and let’s unite for finding an easy outlet to the existing deadlock and for keeping this glorious history intact,” the Association stressed.
Similarly, the Association has sought the prompt implementation of a study report about the control of influence of middle persons so as to end misconducts and corruption in the judiciary. It has appealed to all bodies concerned to contribute for enhancing the dignity of judiciary.
KATHMANDU, June 4: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to ensure Dalit’s rights to justice and equality.
A press release issued by NHRC Spokesperson Dr Tikaram Bhattarai today on the occasion of 15 years of declaring the country a caste-based discrimination and untouchability-free nation reads that cases of caste-based discrimination and untouchability have not yet decreased in the country in lack of effective implementation of laws.
The government had on June 4, 2006 declared Nepal a caste-based discrimination and untouchability-free nation.
The society has not yet become caste-based discrimination and untouchability free nation even after the 15 years of its announcement.
The NHRC expressed concern over taking inhumane incidents of untouchability and caste-based discrimination, torture and murder and rape due to untouchability, discrimination in education as well as impunity in the country in lack of timely action against those involved in such crime.
The human rights body has appealed to all including the political parties, their sister organisations and people’s representatives to help implement related laws so as to find an end to daily incidences of the caste-based discriminations and untouchability in the society. The government has been urged to make sure the effective enforcement of related laws and aspire for building a just society.
Besides, the NHRC wants the government to make efforts to provide necessary relief and proper health care for the economically, socially, culturally and educationally backward Dalit Community as they are at high risk of bearing the brunt of ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
“The Constitution of Nepal has envisaged an egalitarian and just society by guaranteeing the right of every citizen to live with dignity, the right to justice, the right of Dalits, the right to social justice, the right to equality and the right against untouchability and discrimination,’’ the NRHC said in the statement.
It further added such rights have been guaranteed by the Caste-based Discrimination and Untouchability (Offence and Punishment) Act, 2068 BS (2011, the National Criminal Code, 2074 BS (2017) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965to which Nepal is a state party.
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