As shells exploded around their home in a besieged neighborhood of Ta’iz, Yemen, brothers Yahia and Maher, then age 16 and 18, took shelter beneath the staircase. Here they remained for three days, with a dwindling supply of food and water. As dawn broke on the fourth day they made a run for...

डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पको संशोधित अध्यागमन प्रतिबन्धमा मुस्लिमहरुप्रति डरको दृष्टिले हेर्ने नीति अवलम्बन गरिएको देखिन्छ र भाइरसजस्तै यो अझ गहिरो चोटमा परिवर्तन हुदै जाने सलिल शेठ्ठी तर्क गर्छन् । यमनको ताइज क्षेत्रमा अवस्थित उनीहरुको घर वरिपरि गोलाबारी हुँदा त्यति बेला क्रमशः १६ र १८ बर्षका याहिया र माहेर...

Nepal’s authorities must promptly investigate the security forces who opened fire on a crowd of protestors in Saptari district in the Tarai, Nepal’s southern plains, killing three people and injuring 16, Amnesty International said today. “This was an unlawful use of lethal force. There must be a...

22 February, 2017 Amnesty International’s (AI) Annual Global Report 2016/17 was released in Nepal on 22 February, 2017. The report documents the state of human rights in 159 countries and territories and reveals that there was a global push back against human rights in 2016. Nirajan Thapaliya...

Nepal: Key Moment for Justice UN and Donors Need to Back Accountability for Conflict Era Crimes (New York) – The mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons (COID) should be extended indefinitely to ensure that justice,...

Amnesty International Nepal takes the pleasure of having Surya Nath Mishra, former Nepalese Ambassador to Qatar as an honorary member of Amnesty International Nepal.

Stakeholders and migrant communities expressed the dire need of establishing information dissemination structure at local level to make migration safe and dignified. Amnesty International Nepal in coordination with local civil society organisations organised an interaction in Mahottari and Saptari,...

12 September, 2016 Amnesty International (AI) Nepal organised a press conference on 12 September 2016 in Pokhara aiming to publicise its financial detail of fiscal year 2072/73. On the occasion, newly elected Chairperson Rajan Kuikel, General Secretary Lekhnath (Laxmi) Niraula and Director...

11 September, 2016 The 25th Annual General Meeting (National Council Meeting) of Amnesty International (AI) Nepal was held on 10 and 11 September in Pokhara. The highest policy making body meets every year, and this year’s meeting was a continuation of the internal democratic exercise. The...

Victims and Human rights community expressed that Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons cannot give an output in absence of proper mechanism, resources, amendment to the Acts. They also warned that if the political parties do...

In this briefing, Amnesty International documents how police subjected members of the Indigenous Tharu community in Kailali district in Nepal’s Far-Western Tarai in the southern plains part of the country, to arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, and coerced some of them into signing...

Amnesty International Day Political parties and members of the human rights community expressed their commitment to end culture of impunity into ongoing transitional justice process in the country. Speaking at a program organised by Amnesty International Nepal on 27 May 2016, Former Prime Minister...