102nd International Women Day
Activists and victims demanded Truth, Justice and Reparation and opposed proposed general amnesty in the case of grave human rights abused occurred during past conflicts. Marking 102nd international women’s day, representatives of international and national human rights organizations, and victim’s associations called on the government and political parties to ensure legal actions against those perpetrators who were involved in grave human rights violations such as killing, abduction, disappearance, sexual abuses and so on.
Gender and Transitional Justice Network, in which Amnesty International is one of the members, has participated in a rally coordinated by National Women Commission on the occasion of 102nd International Women’s Day on March 8.
Woman’s Day was marked with the international slogan “Connecting Girls: Inspiring Future “and national slogan “End violence against women, zero tolerance against violence against women”. The Network raised voice against blanket amnesty through the banner that read: “Gender and Transitional Justice Network against the blanket amnesty for the offences relating to serious violence of human rights including rape and sexual violence.”
Likewise, the network organized a signature campaign. The signature was collected against the blanket amnesty for the grave violence of human rights including rape and sexual violence and demanding truth, justice and reparation, effective implementation of NAP 1325 and 1820, quashing 35 days limitation on rape cases, identity card for women conflict victims, the execution of the court decision that convicts the perpetrators and investigation of the complaints registered in the police. Over 500 people joined the event.
The banner and flex having signatures were hung in the Republican Wall, located in Bagbazar, Kathmandu which the mass scale of people passing through had seen.
Altogether 22 Network member organizations including Advocacy Forum, Amnesty International, Centre for Mental Health and Counselling – Nepal (CMC-Nepal), Conflict Victims’ Committee (CVC) , Conflict Victims’ Society for Justice(CVSJ),, Feminist Dalit Organization(FEDO) , Forum for Women, Law and Development(FWLD),, HimRights, International Court of Justice(ICJ), International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Informal Sector Service Center(INSEC), Legal Aid and Consultancy Center (LACC), Madhesi Mahila Samaj, Nagarik Awaj, National Women Commission, National Network of Families of Disappeared and Missing Nepal(NEFAD), Pro-public, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal , UN Women, Women for Human Rights, Women Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) and World Vision Advocacy Forum – Nepal(WVAF).