17 July, 2014
AF Joins Int’l Campaigns on Preventing Security Personnel Tainted with HRV Serving as Peacekeepers
17 Jul 2014: Advocacy Forum (AF) has joined international campaigns on preventing security personnel tainted with human rights violations serving as...
11 July, 2014
AF Published a report on Vetting in Nepal
11 Jul 2014: Advocacy Forum (AF) has recently published a report “Vetting in Nepal: Challenges and Issues” in support of Asia...
26 June, 2014
Torture decreased in Nepal: Advocacy Forum Report
26 June 2014: AF launched its annual torture report entitled “Promising Development – Persisting Challenges: Trends and Patterns in Torture in...
5 June, 2014
AF, TRIAL & REDRESS Make Joint Submission to UNHRCs on TRC Act
05 June 2014: Advocacy Forum (AF), TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) & Redress Trust (“REDRESS”) jointly made a submission to the UN...
4 June, 2014
Conflict victims again moved to Supreme Court against the TRC Act
3 June 2014: Conflict victims have challenged the lately enacted transitional justice law on grounds that it infringes international human rights...
28 February, 2014
AF, “REDRESS” & APT Make Joint Submission to UNHRC
13 February 2014: Advocacy Forum (AF), Redress Trust (“REDRESS”) and the Association of the Prevention of Torture (APT) today jointly...
27 September, 2013
Murder Convict Cannot Contest CA Elections: SC
27 September 2013: Scrapping the previous stay order decision of the court, a special bench of the Supreme Court of Nepal...
9 September, 2013
Alleged Perpetrator in Conflict-era Case Sent to Judicial Custody
9 September 2013: Yesterday Chitwan District Court remanded Ram Prasad Adhikari, an alleged perpetrator in Krishna Prasad Adhikari’s murder during the...
30 August, 2013
International Day of the Disappeared Observed
30 August 2013. On the occasion of International Day of the Disappeared 2013, today around 100 human rights defenders and conflict...
30 August, 2013
ICAED Urges States to Ratify Anti-Disappearance Convention
30 August 2013. International Coalition against Enforced Disappearance (ICAED), on the occasion of International Day of the Disappeared, has urged...
14 August, 2013
SC Stays Distribution of Conflict Victims’ Identification Card
14 August 2013. Stating that the usage of term “People’s War” in government’s directives regarding conflict victims’ identification card breaches provisions...
2 August, 2013
AF Organizes National Meeting on CAT Report
29 July 2013. Advocacy Forum – Nepal (AF) organized a one-day National Consultation Meeting entitled “Nepal Report of Inquiry Procedure under...
News
407Among the hundreds of cases documented, Advocacy Forum has selected altogether 15 representative cases that show an endemic pattern of obstruction of justice, brazen abuse or total disregard of the law and deliberate attempts to escape accountability. The cases are also selected on the basis of their availability of evidence and wider public appeal. AF launches campaigns with other national and international organizations to establish accountability in those cases with a view to opening the door of justice to thousands of other similar cases.
May 26, 2025
Orientation against Drug Abuse at Jayendu Child Reform Home
Banke, 26 May 2025: A one-day orientation programme against drug abuse was successfully conducted at the Jayendu Child Reform Home...
May 24, 2025
AF-organized National Workshop Calls for Urgent Reforms in Nepal’s Juvenile Justice System
24 May 2025, Kathmandu: A national workshop convened in Kathmandu on Friday highlighted critical gaps in Nepal’s juvenile justice system,...
May 9, 2025
Three-Month English Training Launched for Juveniles in Banke CRH
9 May 2025, Nepalgunj: A three-month English language training programme has been launched for 40 children in conflict with the...
