Nepal: “No-one cares”: Descent-based discrimination against Dalits in Nepal - Amnesty International

Nepal: “No-one cares”: Descent-based discrimination against Dalits in Nepal - Amnesty International

Authorities in Nepal are failing to protect Dalits, particularly women and girls, from systemic and widespread caste-based discrimination. This report documents the experience of systemic caste-based discrimination in Nepal and the challenges they face in accessing justice as the Nepali authorities’ existing legal and protective measures prove insufficient and fail to secure their human rights. […]

Nepal: Ensure Credible Transitional Justice Appointments

Click to expand Image Nepalese human rights activists and relatives point to photographs of disappeared persons at an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, in Kathmandu, August 30, 2011.  © 2011 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (Geneva) – The Nepal government should urgently heed the demands of conflict victims and amend the process for appointing commissioners to the country’s two transitional justice bodies, Amnesty International, …

Kathmandu. The Search Committee, formed to recommend names for the two transitional justice commissions, has decided to recommend the names of the two commissions. The Search Committee meeting held on Sunday decided to recommend the names of former High Court judge Mahesh Thapa for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and former Chief Secretary Lila Devi Gadtaula for the Commission for the Investigation of Disappeared Persons. Sources say tha…