OPEN LETTER BY KUMI NAIDOO ON THE DEATH PENALTY Your Excellency I am writing to plead for the lives of prisoners who may soon be put to death if executions resume in Sri Lanka. More than four decades ago, your country stopped the implementation of this ultimate, cruel, in human and degrading...

22 February, 2019 Civil society organisations and human rights defenders around the world who speak out against unjust laws and government practices, challenge public opinion or those in power, and demand justice, dignity and freedom, are being increasingly targeted. In this context, an alarming...

12 February, 2019 The ICJ, Amnesty International and TRIAL International today called for the Government of Nepal to commit to a transparent and consultative transitional justice process that complies with international law and the judgments of the Supreme Court of Nepal.  View report in English...

12 February, 2019 It’s awards season in Hollywood, and a year since a #MeToo-dominated Oscars ceremony made sexual harassment a global talking point. Critics will be watching to see what, if anything, has changed in the film industry since the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke. But the #MeToo movement...

11 February, 2019 Amnesty Nepal ran its human rights education programme on a bigger scale in 2018, conducting training sessions for over 60 of its members in Letang and Gaidakot. These members then took the human rights education programme to schools in 22 districts of Nepal. By the end of the...

6 February, 2019 Twelve years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Nepal’s transitional justice process which is an integral part of the peace process failed to move ahead in a credible and meaningful way. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Commission of Investigation on...

२०७५ माघ २३ विस्तृत शान्ति सम्झौता भएको १२ वर्ष व्यतित भई सक्दा पनि नेपालको शान्ति प्रकृयाको एक अभिन्न अंशको रूपमा रहेको संक्रमणकालीन न्याय प्रकृया विश्वसनीय र सार्थकरूपमा अगाडि बढ्न सकेको छैन । संक्रमणकालीन न्यायका लागि गठन गरिएका सत्य निरुपण तथा मेलमिलाप आयोग र बेपत्ता पारिएका व्यक्तिको छानबिन...

6 February, 2019 With less than four years until the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off in front of 86,000 fans at the Lusail Stadium, and billions watching across the world, Qatar’s record on migrant workers’ rights remain firmly in the spotlight. While Qatar has finally begun a high-profile reform...

यस मुक्तिनाथ अधिकारी सत्रौं वार्षिक स्मृति दिवस तथा “शान्ति प्रकृयाको १२ वर्ष: द्वन्द्वपीडितलाई सत्य, न्याय र परिपूरण कहिले त?” अन्तक्र्रिया कार्यक्रमका सभापति महोदय, कार्यक्रमका प्रमुख अतिथि राष्ट्रिय मानवअधिकार आयोगका माननीय अध्यक्ष अनुपराज शर्माज्यू, संसदको कानुन, न्याय र मानवअधिकार समितिका...

नेपालको १० वर्षे शसस्त्र द्वन्द्वकालमा भएका मानवअधिकार उल्लङ्घनबाट पीडीत बनाइएका नागरीकहरूले विस्तृत शान्ति सम्झौताको १२ वर्षसम्म पनि न्याय पाउन सकेका छैनन् | चार वर्ष अघि गठन गरिएका सत्य निरुपण तथा मेलमिलाप आयोग र बेपत्ता पारिएका व्यक्तिहरूको छानबीन आयोगबाट द्वन्द्वपीडीतहरूले सत्य, न्याय र...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  MEDIA QUOTE 13 January 2018, Nepal Authorities must proactively act to eradicate the harmful practice of banishing women and girls to insanitary and dangerous huts during their menstrual cycles. Responding to the death in Bajura district, Nepal, of a woman and her two young...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONALQUOTE 17 December 2018 Death penalty: Global abolition closer than ever as record number of countries vote to end executions After a record number of UN member states today supported at the final vote a key UN General Assembly resolution calling for a moratorium on executions...