30 June, 2018
Amnesty International Nepal today held a rally in front of the American Embassy in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policy that separates children from their parents. Amnesty International is marking 30 June 2018 as the Global Day of Action against this ‘inhumane’ practice by organising mass demonstrations at the White House in Washington D.C. and the U.S. embassies in different parts of the world.
Here in Kathmandu, human rights activists along with Amnesty Nepal members began their rally at 9 a.m. from Narayan Gopal Chowk, Chakrapath and traversed to Teaching Hospital via the U.S. Embassy. The rally later converged into a gathering outside the embassy where Amnesty International Nepal Chair Rajan Kuikel criticised Trump’s immigration policy and demanded improvements in it. Mr. Kuikel and Director Nirajan Thapaliya then handed over a memorandum to the U.S. Embassy.
Background:
On Saturday 30 June 2018, mass demonstration will be held at the White House in Washington, DC, against the Trump administration’s practices of family separation and detention. Amnesty International will be joining allies to protest the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when crossing the southern border from Mexico. It has already collected more than 100,000 signatures on petitions asking the US government to stop this practice. Amnesty Ireland, Canada, and Sweden are all taking actions to hold the Trump administration accountable.
Amnesty members will be rallying in several cities across the U.S.A. to protest this policy on Saturday. Demonstrations have been taking place at the U.S. embassies in the UK, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Mexico, Peru, Algeria, Austria, South Africa, Poland and Denmark.
People all around the world are still outraged about the practices of family separation and detention, despite the recent Executive Order. The Executive Order does nothing to reunify families, still leaves open the possibility of separating families, and mandates the detention of children with their parents instead.