June 7, 2012
AF and ALRC submit statement to Human Rights Council
7 June 2012. Advocacy Forum (AF) and The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) jointly submitted a written statement under Agenda Item...
April 25, 2012
AF’s Campaign against Torture Applauded
25 April 2012. The Oxford Journals of Human Rights Practice, the online journal of the University of Oxford, published an online...
April 24, 2012
Victims’ Solidarity for Justice
In order to gather local and nation consensus against amnesty for serious human rights violations committed during the decade-long conflict,...
April 20, 2012
TRC and DC to be Merged
20 April 2012. Three major political parties, UCPN (Maoist), CPN-UML and NC have agreed to merge Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)...
April 19, 2012
TRC and DC Should Meet International Standards: NHRC
19 April 2012. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent a letter to the government recommending it to form Truth and...
April 19, 2012
Letter Submitted to PM Regarding Torture Bill
19 April 2012. Advocacy Forum and REDRESS submitted a joint letter to the Prime Minister regarding the torture bill that is...
April 17, 2012
Human Rights Community in Agitation
18 April 2012. Human rights activists and leaders of the civil society launched a pressure campaign for the prompt formation of...
April 2, 2012
Consensus built to table TRC and DC Bills before Parliament
2 April 2012. Possibility to form the much-awaited Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) and Disappearance Commission (DC) has heightened as the top...
March 30, 2012
DC former Verdict Quashed
29 March 2012. The Patan Appellate Court has today quashed the order of the Kathmandu District Court vis-à-vis case forward of...
March 30, 2012
Court Awards Compensation
29 March 2012. The District Court of Kathmandu has today issued an order to award torture survivor Mr. Bharat Sharma a...
March 9, 2012
AF and AHRC Jointly Submit Separate Open Letters to Big Three against Blanket Amnesty
9 March 2012. In three separate open letters issued yesterday, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and Advocacy Forum (AF) have...
February 28, 2012
Ratification of the Third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure
28 February 2012. An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission, Advocacy Forum, Concern for Children and Environment (Concern) Nepal,...
