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  1. Human rights in Nepal

    Overview. A clash between the Nepalese government forces and the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN- Maoist) occurred between 1996 and 2006, resulting in an increase in human rights abuses throughout the country. Both sides have been accused of torture, unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests, and abductions. Nepal was home to the most disappearances ...

  2. Breaking Barriers to Justice

    In a 13-page communication sent to the government of Nepal on June 9, 2023, four UN human rights experts welcomed "some positive aspects introduced by the Bill, such as … examin[ing] the root ...

  3. World Report 2022: Nepal

    Women's and Girls' Rights. Nepal has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Asia, with 33 percent of girls marrying before 18 years and 8 percent married by age 15. Among boys, 9 ...

  4. Human rights in Nepal Amnesty International

    Nepal 2023. Security forces continued to use unnecessary and excessive force to disperse and detain protesters, resulting in four deaths. Authorities banned TikTok and carried out arrests to limit freedom of expression. The government failed to deliver justice, truth and reparations to victims of the 1996-2006 conflict.

  5. Everything you need to know about human rights in Nepal

    Federal legislation limiting the rights to freedom of expression and privacy remained pending, while provincial governments drafted new bills threatening media freedom. Protesters were detained and security forces continued to use unnecessary and excessive force to disperse protests. The government failed to deliver justice, truth and reparations to victims of the 1996-2006 conflict. Thousands ...

  6. PDF NEPAL 2020 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

    According to a report by the human rights group Terai Human Rights Defenders Alliance (THRDA), 12 of 18 custodial deaths they reported from 2015-20 occurred among members of the Dalit, Madhesi, or other marginalized communities. On June 10, Shambhu Sada, a member of the Dalit community, died in police custody in Dhanusha District.

  7. World Report 2020: Nepal

    Human Rights Watch | 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor | New York, NY 10118-3299 USA | t 1.212.290.4700 Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808 Human ...

  8. Status of Human Rights in Nepal for the 2020 Universal ...

    Nepal is also a party to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which protects religious freedom with language identical to the found in Article 18 of the ICCPR. 9. Currently, Nepal's domestic law does not hold to the standard set by the UDHR and the ICCPR both of by which it has committed -according to its own constitution -to ...

  9. PDF Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Nepal

    the Maoist and the other political parties.The transformation process and the new Constitution adopted in 2015 firmly establishes the political, economic, cultural and social rights of the people as. he bedrock of Nepal's democratic process. The Constitution is the fundamental law and the Supreme Court is the u.

  10. UN Portal

    UN Portal - Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was drafted in direct response to the calamities and barbarous acts experienced by the peoples of the world during the Second World War. It is the embodiment of universal values and transcend ...

  11. Nepal must now deliver on promise of social justice

    Nepal has succeeded in reducing multidimensional poverty by 12.7 percent between 2014 and 2019, and its Human Development Index has improved, as have indicators related to health and education.

  12. Nepal

    Government Human Rights Bodies: The NHRC investigated allegations of abuses, but insufficient staff (90 out of 309 positions were vacant as of August), and limitations on its mandate led some activists to view the body as ineffective and insufficiently independent. The NHRC claimed the government helped promote impunity by failing to implement ...

  13. PDF NEPAL 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

    NEPAL 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nepal is a federal democratic republic. The political system is based on the constitution, which was promulgated in 2015, replacing the Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007) . The constitution establishes a framework for a prime minister

  14. Human rights in Nepal Amnesty International

    Overview. Security forces continued to use unnecessary and excessive force to disperse and detain protesters, resulting in four deaths. Authorities banned TikTok and carried out arrests to limit freedom of expression. The government failed to deliver justice, truth and reparations to victims of the 1996-2006 conflict.

  15. PDF NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (NHRC)

    Nepal has raiied many human rights treaies and convenions including ILO convenions and four internaional humanitarian laws as of April 2009. Nepal is a party to three ani traicking convenions: the 1926 Slavery Convenion, the 1956 Supplementary Convenion on the Aboliion of Slavery, and

  16. World Report 2017: Nepal

    Although child marriage has been illegal in Nepal since 1963, 37 percent of girls are married by age 18, and 10 percent married before age 15. Recent research by Human Rights Watch found that ...

  17. PDF Provision of Fundamental Rights in the Constitutions of Nepal

    of 357 killings and 30 forced vanishings of human rights defenders, journalists, and trade unionists in 47 countries in 2019(Martin, p. 2). ... The general objective of this article is to discuss the development of fundamental rights of Nepal with the change of time, law, and situation. The study has the following specific objectives:

  18. (PDF) Fundamental Rights: Some Reflections on the Present

    An overview of the comprehensive catalogue of the proposed fundamental rights clearly shows that the draft report has tried to incorporate some universally accepted principles of human rights Jurisprudence embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) (UDHR), ICCPR (1966), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and ...

  19. Human Rights In Nepal: An Analysis by Diwakar Dhakal :: SSRN

    Abstract. The subject of this paper, "Human Rights in Nepal: An Analysis," mostly focuses on the rights that a person is born with, and due to the discrimination in society, some individuals are unable to access these rights. Among these people, most of them are from marginalized groups in society: women, scheduled castes, the elderly ...

  20. UN Digital Library Nepal: View Document

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a monumental document for each and every one of us, and its proclamation an epic moment for free nations and peoples. ... Nepal #69 UN Essay 2015: My United Nations- A vision for the future ... Human Rights in Nepal One year after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (December 2007). ...

  21. PDF Re-writing Fundamental Rights and Gender Issues in the New Constitution

    Evolution of Fundamental Rights in Nepal. In Nepal, Fundamental Rights first found place in 1947's Constitution, inspired by discussion over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Indian experience of constitution drafting. However, the subsequent constitution of 1950 only incorporated the Directive Principles of State Policies ...

  22. PDF National Human Rights Commission of Nepal

    the international human rights treaties and conventions, and the constitution and legal provisions of Nepal, the National Human Rights Commission has introduced and implemented the Human Rights Defenders Guidelines, 2012 AD. The Government of Nepal has also formulated the Order on the safety and protection of human rights defendrs, 2021 AD. ...

  23. OHCHR

    It is closely related to Hindi and the other languages of north India, and possesses a rich body of modern literature. Devanagari script is used. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading United Nations entity in the field of human rights, with a unique mandate to promote and protect all human rights for all people.