On 31 January 2018, Istanbul’s 35th High Criminal Court had ordered the release of Taner Kılıç, Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, who was being held under false charges for his human rights work by the Turkish regime. A lawyer by profession, Kılıç is one of the vocal human rights defenders in...

17 January, 2018 Muktinath Adhikari Memorial Foundation and Amnesty International Nepal jointly organised an event on 17 January to mark the 16th anniversary of the killing of Muktinath Adhikari. Adhikari, then headmaster of Panini Sanskrit High School in Lamjung was brutally killed on 17 January...

If there is one aspect of Nepal’s socio-economic condition that touches the life of just about every Nepali family today, it is migration. There is no other more damning indictment of governance failure and criminal neglect over the last 25 years. This is flagrant abdication by the political...

23 December, 2017 On 23 December, Amnesty International Nepal conducted an orientation programme for the members of Amnesty International Nepal Group 67 in Hetauda. Likewise, members of Amnesty Nepal Forestry Youth Network of College of Forestry were also given orientation on the same day in...

Dec 20, 2017 More than two years since the implementation of the ‘free visa, free ticket’ policy for out-migrant workers by the government, this scheme has been largely ignored by recruiting agencies. And the government is not doing enough to enforce it. Potential out-migrant workers continue to...

18 December, 2017 Amnesty International Nepal submitted a letter to His Excellency Lasse Bjørn Johannessen, ambassador of Norway on 18 December sharing Amnesty International’s concern on the forcible returns of Afghan asylum seekers from Norway and other European countries to Afghanistan where they...

New research by Amnesty International has exposed how the Nepali government’s failure to crack down on recruitment agencies which charge illegal fees for jobs abroad is leaving migrant workers trapped in a vicious cycle of debt and exploitation. The organisation found that almost two-thirds of...

15 December, 2017 Around 75 activists of Amnesty International Nepal today staged a demonstration in front of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu urging the authorities of Norway to revisit their current policy of forcefully returning Afghani asylum seekers to Afghanistan where the situation...

9 December, 2017 Around forty poets including Nepal’s prominent literary figures and men of letters such as bangmaya shataabdi yug purush Satya Mohan Joshi, Prof. Tulasi Diwas, Prof. Dr. Benju Sharma, Prof. Dr. Abhi Subedi, poet Toya Gurung, poet Nabaraj Lamsal, poet Viplob Pratik, among...

5 December, 2017 Amnesty International Nepal expresses concern over the increasing incidents of violence in the run up to the second phase of Nepal’s parliamentary election, and urges authorities to ensure safety and respect human rights during the election. नेपाली  &   English

24 November, 2017 Amnesty International Nepal expresses concern on the consistent incidents of violence in the run-up to the historic parliamentary and provincial elections in the country.  It urges stakeholders to create a safe environment for the polls. नेपाली  & English

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