13 January 2012. Speaker: Tyrell Haberkorn, ANU; Suzanne Karstedt, Leeds University; Mandira Sharma, Advocacy Forum, Kathmandu. Date: 12:00pm - 2:00pm, 13 Jan 2012. Venue: Seminar Room 3, Hedley Bull Centre #130, ANU. This seminar will address impunity, the problem of perpetrators of serious crimes being protected from prosecution or other forms of punishment and accountability. It will examine both the theory and historical context of impunity, and its particular manifestations in Asia. It will cover questions such as why states fail to investigate certain crimes; the effect of impunity on victims; and the way that truth and reconciliation commissions affect impunity.

27 December 2011. The Supreme Court (SC) has today refrained from registering a writ petition on a rape case that occurred during the conflict in Dailekh. The then lieutenant of Bhawanibaks battalion, Jibesh Thapa and three other are implicated in the rape of a 40-year old woman of Narayan Municipality of Dailekh.

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.

30 November 2011. Advocacy Forum (AF), New York-based rights agency Human Rights Watch (HRW) and UK-based human rights organization REDRESS have jointly released two separate reports on Nepal's endemic impunity and have reiterated their calls for the government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes committed during and after the conflict.

23 November 2011. In its landmark order, the Supreme Court today decided to continue with its stay order issued on 13 November which had barred the government from implementing its decision to recommend presidential pardon for Maoist CA member Bal Krishna Dhungel.

13 November 2011. Responding to a writ petition filed on Thursday seeking immediate nullification of the government's decision to recommend presidential pardon for Bal Krishna Dhungel, the Supreme Court has today issued an interim order to the government not to implement its decision until November 21. The order, in effect, has relieved the President from taking any decision on this controversial case.

10 November 2011. A writ petition was filed today at the Supreme Court against the controversial decision of the government to recommend the President to grant pardon to Maoist lawmaker Bal Krishna Dhungel, who was convicted by the Supreme Court of the murder of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha of Okhaldhunga.  The government has pronounced the case involving Dhungel as "purely a political case" and has recommended his clemency invoking Article 151 of the Interim Constitution.

9 November 2011. Leaders of civil society have opposed the government’s decision to recommend pardon to Maoist CA member Balkrishna Dhungel, sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscation of property by the Supreme Court (SC) for murdering Ujjan Kumar Shrestha.

9 November 2011. Human rights activists and victim families have protested the decision of the Government of Nepal recommending the President to grant amnesty to Balkrishna Dhungel, a Maoist Constituent Assembly (CA) member.  In a joint press statement released yesterday in Kathmandu, they have decried such decision by the government.

4 November 2011. Speakers in a program organized by Advocacy Forum Nepal (AF) in Kathmandu yesterday emphasized the need to prosecute the perpetrators of human rights violation for sustainable peace. Entitled “Incidents of human rights violations: Challenges in the Law and Solutions,” the interaction program attended primarily by District Court Judges, District Attorneys, victims representatives and human rights defenders concluded that in the absence of justice for the victims, sustainable peace cannot be imagined.