Advocacy Forum is the first organization in Nepal to use individual complaint mechanism under the First Optional Protocol of International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). According to the said protocol, individuals, whose countries are party to the ICCPR and the protocol, who claim their rights guaranteed by the ICCPR have been breached, and who have exhausted existing domestic legal remedies in the pursuit of justice, can submit written communications to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC). This particular effort of AF has opened the space of Nepali lawyers to international litigation.
December 22, 2024
Dev Bahadur Maharjan (Illegal Detention, Torture, Disappearance)
Dev Bahadur Maharjan was arrested on 26 November 2003 by members of the Nepal Army. He was illegally detained at...
December 22, 2024
Manau Case (Mass Disappearances)
On the night of 11 April 2002, eight youngsters- Dhaniram Tharu, Soniram Tharu, Radhulal Tharu, Prem Prakash Tharu, Kamala Tharu,...
December 22, 2024
Mukunda Sedhai (Disappearance)
On 19 December 2003, Mukunda Sedai was arbitrarily arrested by plain-clothes men while playing cards at a tea stall nearby...
December 22, 2024
Subhadra Chaulagain (Extrajudicial Killing)
On the night of 12 February 2004, around fifty to sixty armed and uniformed members of the then Royal Nepal...
February 2, 2011
Yubaraj Giri (Illegal detention, Torture, Disappearance)
Yubaraj Giri, from Kohalpur, Banke district, was arbitrarily arrested by the Nepal Army in April 2004 and illegally detained at...
February 2, 2011
Surya Prasad Sharma (Disappearance)
Surya Prasad Sharma disappeared after he was arrested by the army in January 2002 from his home in Baglung district....
