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4 December, 2012

Medico-legal Workshop Conducted

4 December 2012. Advocacy Forum (AF) organized a three-day medico-legal workshop on December 1, 2 and 3 in Kathmandu, aiming to...

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4 December, 2012

AFAD Condemns Arrest of Family Members of Disappeared and FOD Members at the Conclusion of its Council Meeting

3 December 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) concluded its week-long Council Meeting in Sri Lanka...

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26 November, 2012

Writ against Shelving of FIR filed

26 November 2012. Requesting for the nullification of the government decision to shelve the FIR against Maoists including Agni Sapkota in...

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26 November, 2012

Apex Court Issues Stay Order in FIR Shelving Case

26 November 2012. Responding to the writ filed on 22 November 2012 by Purnimaya Lama to nullify the government decision to...

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20 November, 2012

Documentary on Torture Survivors Screened

20 November 2012. “The Resurrected”, a documentary about representative torture survivors in Nepal, was screened on 18 November 2012 in Kathmandu...

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15 October, 2012

AF Censures Basnet Promotion

15 October 2012. Advocacy Forum has issued a press release condemning the government’s recent decision of promoting Colonel Raju Basnet to...

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15 October, 2012

Supreme Court Issues Stay Order in Basnet Promotion Case

15 October 2012. Responding to the writ petition that challenged government’s decision of promoting Raju Basnet to the post of brigadier...

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12 October, 2012

AWC calls on OHCHR Report Implementation

12 October 2012. Welcoming the recently released ‘Nepal Conflict Report-2012’ of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),...

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12 October, 2012

Rights Organizations Condemn Recent Withdrawals of Cases

12 October 2012. Human rights organizations including Advocacy Forum have condemned Nepal government’s freshest instance of case withdrawal against people implicated...

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31 August, 2012

International Day of the Disappeared Observed

31 August 2012. Like previous years, this year, too, Advocacy Forum (AF) observed the ‘International Day of the Disappeared, 2012’ commemorating...

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23 August, 2012

Nepalganj Appellate Court Issues Show Cause Order against Banke Police

23 August 2012. Responding to writ petition filed by Radha Devi Devkota, Appellate Court Nepalganj on 15 August 2012 has issued...

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23 August, 2012

HRC Again Finds Nepal Responsible for Breaching Treaty Obligations

24 August 2012. Holding Nepal responsible for breaching her treaty obligations under the ICCPR once again, the United Nations Human Rights...

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Among 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.