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Nepal: Victims of enforced disappearance get justice before the UN
03.12.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
The United Nations delivered landmark decisions by giving justice to three conflict-era victims in Nepal. The decisions, rendered by one of the most prominent international human rights bodies, send a message of hope to the families of all victims of enforced disappearances and torture in the country. As widespread impunity still prevails in post-conflict Nepal, the G...
Nepal: Flawed Transitional Justice Act Adopted
03.06.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Last May, the President of Nepal passed a deeply flawed Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act. Violating human rights law standards, this Act raises great concerns, as it will contribute to further entrench impunity in Nepal.
TRIAL calls for amendments to be made and reminds that current Nepalese transitional justice mechanisms are totally inadequate as they:...
General Allegation on Transitional Justice Mechanisms
01.06.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)
In June 2014, TRIAL, together with Advocacy Forum - Nepal and REDRESS, submitted a report providing an analysis of the conformity with international standards of the provisions of the recently enacted Act on the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation 2071 (11 May 2014) to several UN Special Procedures.
TRIAL requested the Speci...
Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Children Involvement in Armed Con...
01.06.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)
On 3 January 2007 Nepal ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). On 15 October 2012 Nepal presented to the Committee on the Rights of the Child its Initial Report (CRC/C/OPAC/NPL/1) pursuant to Article 8, para. 1, of the OPAC.
On 26 June 2014 TRIAL submitted an alternative...
Nepal: TRIAL seized the UN on behalf of a victim of torture
14.04.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
In April 2014, TRIAL has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) on behalf of a victim of arbitrary arrest, torture and enforced disappearance in Nepal.
Arbitrarily arrested, disappeared and tortured
Amrit Kandel, a Nepalese citizen, was arbitrarily arrested in Kathmandu on 10th October 2003 during the armed conflict th...
Alternative report to the Human Rights Committee
01.03.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)
In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) reviewed Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In this perspective, TRIAL and its partners submitted an “alternative report” to the HRC to assist a Country Task Force on Nepal ahead of its adoption of a List of Issues concerning Nepal in July 2013 at...
Nepal: a victim of enforced disappearance and torture in Terai petitions the UN for jus...
20.02.2014 - (Last modified: 28.03.2018)
TRIAL submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, on behalf of a Nepalese citizen, Mr. Prashanta Pandey, on a case of his torture and violations of the right to a fair trial perpetrated in the Terai by Nepalese authorities.
Arbitrarily arrested, disappeared and tortured
Prashanta Pandey, a citizen from Terai, was arbitrarily arrested on 7 April 2011...
Nepal: a victim of enforced disappearance and torture petitions the UN for justice
09.01.2014 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, about the arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture of Sarita Devi Sharma from 2003 to 2005 by state security forces, during the armed conflict in Nepal.
Disappeared and tortured
Sarita Sharma was arbitrarily arrested on 20 October 2003, in Kathmandu by soldiers of the Royal Nepal Ar...
Nepal should end impunity for rape perpetrators
12.08.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL and its Nepalese partner HimRights denounce the ongoing impunity for perpetrators of acts of sexual violence committed in Nepal during the conflict (1996-2006) and post-conflict periods in a report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW or the Committee).
The NGO's deplores that not a single case of rape or sex...
Nepal: Alternative Reports to CEDAW
01.08.2013 - (Last modified: 08.11.2016)
On 29 July 2011 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted its concluding observations with regard to Nepal's combined fourth and fifth periodic reports, requesting the government to provide within two years, written information on the steps undertaken to implement the recommendations contained therein.
In light of this request, TRI...
Impunity in Nepal: alternative report to Human Rights Committee
26.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee will review Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a core human rights treaty it has been a party to since 1991. As Nepal submitted its state party report almost 14 years later, this will be the first time the Human Rights Committee has the opportunity to scru...
Nepal: disappeared and tortured for 500 days
22.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL today submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, alleging the unlawful detention, enforced disappearance and torture of Himal Sharma from 2003 to 2005 by state security forces, during the height of the armed conflict in Nepal.
Disappeared and tortured
On 21 October 2003, Himal Sharma was unlawfully arrested in Kathmandu by members of state sec...