Case Updates

Maina Sunuwar

Around 6 am on February 17, 2004, a group of RNA soldiers arrested Ms Maina Sunuwar, a 15-year-old schoolgirl of Kharelthok VDC-6, Kavre district. She disappeared since her arrest. Her family members, with support from villagers and school where Maina was a student, visited detention centers and Army barracks to find her, but the authorities simply denied having arrested and detained her.

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Close Encounters

Stories from the frontline of human rights work in Nepal

During Nepal’s armed conflict and its aftermath, human rights violations not only scarred and destroyed the victims but had a devastating effect on the lives of human rights defenders.
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Mandira Sharma, Founder of Advocacy Forum receives Australian Leadership Award !

22 December 2011. Mandira Sharma, Founder of Advocacy Forum has received Australian Leadership Award. She is currently in Australia. She will be working mainly to strengthen networks with Australian academics and NGOs working in the field of human rights. As one of the major works of the Advocacy Forum is to combat impunity in the crimes of human rights violations, she will also be conducting research on the system of universal jurisdiction and the Australian legal system to which this relates.

For more information:
http://regnet.anu.edu.au/people/ms-mandira-sharma

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