30 November, 2011
AF, HRW and REDRESS Release Two Reports on Nepal’s Endemic Impunity
30 November 2011. Advocacy Forum (AF), New York-based rights agency Human Rights Watch (HRW) and UK-based human rights organization REDRESS have...
25 November, 2011
Don’t act on Pardon: SC
23 November 2011. In its landmark order, the Supreme Court today decided to continue with its stay order issued on 13...
14 November, 2011
SC Stays Dhungel Clemency
13 November 2011. Responding to a writ petition filed on Thursday seeking immediate nullification of the government’s decision to recommend presidential...
10 November, 2011
Pardon to Dhungel Contravenes CPA: Rights Activists Warn Protests
9 November 2011. Leaders of civil society have opposed the government’s decision to recommend pardon to Maoist CA member Balkrishna Dhungel,...
9 November, 2011
Government Pressured for Refraining from Amnesty to Dhungel
9 November 2011. Human rights activists and victim families have protested the decision of the Government of Nepal recommending the President...
4 November, 2011
Concerns Expressed Over Rise in Impunity
4 November 2011. Speakers in a program organized by Advocacy Forum Nepal (AF) in Kathmandu yesterday emphasized the need to prosecute...
3 November, 2011
Dr. Hari Bansh Tripathi at AF
2 November 2011. Dr. Hari Bansh Tripathi has been appointed as the new Director of Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF-Nepal). Dr. Tripathi...
25 October, 2011
Policeman Rapes a Woman : FIR Lodged
25 October 2011. Area Police Office (APO), Kakadbhitta of Jhapa district registered an FIR on rape in 20th October against a...
3 October, 2011
Victim’s family demands no amnesty to assembly member Dhungel
3 October 2011. Victim’s family has demanded not to grant amnesty to Balkrishna Dhungel, Maoist assembly member from Okhaldhunga who has...
30 September, 2011
SC Issues Directives to Review Quasi-judicial power of CDO
30 September 2011. The Supreme Court on 22 September 2011 issued a directive order in the name of the government to...
30 September, 2011
DPO Dailekh Denies Registering FIR on Rape Case
30 September 2011. The District Police Office (DPO) of Dailekh has today refused to register the FIR of a rape case...
27 September, 2011
Torture in Nepal and the role of NPM
27 September 2011. Expressing their views on the necessity of effective mechanism to prevent torture and other ill-treatment in Nepal, participants...
