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Krishna Adhikari

Krishna Adhikari On 6 June 2004, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, a resident of Fujel village of Gorkha District, was murdered in Chitwan District by Maoist cadres. Krishna Prasad was visiting his grandparents after having taken the SLC examinations, and he was abducted from Bakullahar Chowk by men who came on a motorcycle ...
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Maina Sunuwar

Maina Sunuwar Around 6 am on February 17, 2004, a group of RNA soldiers arrested Ms Maina Sunuwar, a 15-year-old schoolgirl of Kharelthok VDC-6, Kavre district. She disappeared since her arrest. Her family members, with support from villagers and school where Maina was a student, visited detention centers ...
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Sanjeev Kumar Karna

Sanjeev Kumar Karna Sanjeev Kumar Karna was one among the 11 persons arrested on October 8, 2003. On that fateful day, they had gone to attend a picnic program organized by the students at a place called Kariyachauri VDC-4, and from picnic, they went to Kataiya Chowri Area of Dhanusha district where they ate some food ...
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Arjun Bahadur Lama

Arjun Bahadur Lama, 48 years in age, permanent resident of Chhatrebas VDC -5, Dapcha in Kavre district was abducted by a group of Maoist cadres, three in number, on 29 April 2005 (2062.1.16 BS) from the premises of Sri Krishna Secondary School at Chhatrebas VDC-1 of the district.
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Hari Prasad Bolakhe

Hari Prasad Bolakhe, 35 (while missing) a permanent resident of Phulbari VDC-8, Kavre district, a pastor by profession, had been missing since the arrest December 27, 2003, was reportedly killed by security persons. A team of National Human Rights Commission discovered a human skeleton in a jungle ...
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Sarala Sapkota

Around 11 p.m. on July 15, 2004, a group of 12 armed soldiers arrested Sarala Sapkota at her grandfather’s house. The family, who witnessed the arrest, stated that soldiers gave Sarala no reason for her arrest. After her arrest, Sarala’s family went to Baireni barracks and the DPO ...
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Birendra Shah

On the evening of 5 October 2007, Mr. Birendra Shah, 34, resident of Inruwasira VDC-8, Bara district, a local journalist of Bara district and correspondent of Nepal FM, Avenues Television and Dristi weekly, was abducted by Maoists from Pipara Bazaar in Kalaiya, the district headquarters of Bara ...
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Bishwanath Parajuli, Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang

Three persons namely Bishwonath Parajuli (also called Nagendra Parajuli), Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang of Hasandaha VDC, Morang were shot dead by the security personnel on 28 September 2004. According to the eyewitnesses, other victims and the villagers, about 16 people were arrested ...
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Chot Nath Ghimire and Shekhar Nath Ghimire

Chot Nath Ghimire, a 58-year-old farmer, resident of Ishaneshor VDC-4, Ratamate Majhpokhari of Lamjung district was allegedly arrested by the Joint Security Forces of Joint Security Camp stationed at Bhorlatar VDC, Lamjung district on February 2, 2002 (2058.10.20). The security camp called Mr. ...
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Bhauna Tharu

Bhauna Tharu (Bhauna Chaudhary in the citizenship card), 21 years old male (at the time of the incident; Date of Birthe: 8 September 1978), son of Purna Bahadur Chaudhary, permanent resident of Sujanpur village, Neulapur VDC-4, Bardiya district, and an employee of Rastriya Gobar Gas, Gulariya, ...
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Close Encounters

Stories from the Frontline of Human Rights Work in Nepal

Close Encounters
During Nepal’s armed conflict and its aftermath, human rights violations not only scarred and destroyed the victims but had a devastating effect on the lives of human rights defenders.
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Advocacy Forum- Nepal Provided COVID-19 Response Package to Child Correction Home in Doti

Advocacy Forum- Nepal Provided COVID-19 Response Package to Child Correction Home in Doti

Taking the on-going pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 into consideration, on 17 September 2020, Advocacy Forum Nepal- Far Western Province Mahendra Nagar Kanchanpur handed over materials related to COVID- 19 response such as towels, soaps, sanitizers, masks, bags, 5 electric kettles,4 water filters, thermos flasks and bottles to the Child Correction Home in Doti district to prevent them from being infected by COVID-19. Along with the 37 children, the program was attended by Administrative Head of the Correction Home, Sanumaya Limbu Gurung, the chairman of ward no. 6 of the Dipayal Silgadhi Municipality, Santosh Bohara, Sub Inspector Lal Singh Rawal along with two police constables ad 6 police officials.

Speaking in the program, Sanumaya Limbu Gurung informed that earlier the building of the Correction Home was the  Office of Women and Children. Later in 2018, it was turned into a Correction Home. She stated that 21 children have been handed over to their guardians and remaining 37 are serving their remand or jail sentence. Along with a sub-inspector, two police constables and 6 police officials, there are two other staffs working in the Correction Home. She stated that the Correction Home is in need of a warden for which she has already written to the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, but no action is taken so far.

Santosh Bohara, the chairman of Ward no. 6 of Dipayal Silgadi Municipality thanked for being invited to the program and committed to provide some equipments as well.

Representing the 37 children from the Correction Home, Bikram Bista acknowledged the assistance provided Advocacy Forum which, according to him, is the first assistance they have received so far.

Advocacy Forum observed that the rooms in the Correction Home are small and narrow. Managing it when there are  more children will be challenging The management of drinking water and physical infrastructures is not adequate. Nepal Government should come up with plans and budget to address this issue.

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