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On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the international community reiterates the...
In two cases led by TRIAL, the UN Human Rights Committee recognized – again – Nepal’s failing to deliver justice to its...
The murdered teenager was a symbol of military impunity. Now that her killers have been convicted, she could become a fi...
08.02.2017 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Public Statement
A mere 24 months after their launch, the transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms of Nepal faced closing d...
09.01.2017 - (Last modified: 28.03.2018)
For the first time in Nepal, torturers have been ordered to pay compensation to their victim. Unfortunately, they also...
15.12.2016 - (Last modified: 26.01.2017)
The government’s proposal to criminalize torture is riddled with loopholes, as illustrated in the fictitious case of hum...
10.11.2016 - (Last modified: 17.11.2016)
Mr. Nepali was a journalist at a Maoist daily newspaper during the civil war that opposed Nepali security forces with t...
31.10.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
Tej Bahadur Bhandari was forcibly disappeared in 2001. His son, Ram Bhandari, has never given up on justice and is now...
04.10.2016 - (Last modified: 31.01.2019)
An Op-Ed by Valérie Paulet
Despite his acquittal, the trial of Colonel Ku...
07.09.2016 - (Last modified: 03.11.2016)
Nepalese colonel Kumar Lama has been acquitted of the charges of torture he faced in the United Kingdom.
On 6 Septemb...
06.09.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
An op-ed by Helena Rodríguez-Bronchú Carceller
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless th...
06.07.2016 - (Last modified: 13.07.2016)
Over the last two months, the NGOs Collective Campaign for Peace, Himalayan Human Rights Monitors and TRIAL Internation...
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