64th Human Rights Day Special Leaders of the leading political parties expressed their commitment to play vital role to ensure the issue of justice be an integral part of consensus package.  Speakers at an interaction program entitled “Nepal: Full Spectrum of Impunity and Human Rights...

Amnesty International has expressed its concern over recent remarks made by the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA) against the implementation of existing rules related to labour migration by the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE). By issuing a public statement from its...

16 Days Activism Against Gender Based Violence The 16 days Activism against Gender Based Violence began amid a rally in Kathmandu on 25 November 2012. Amnesty International Nepal along with several other organizations took part on the inaugural rally which was coordinated by National Women...

Amnesty International said Govinda Mainali’s acquittal was a sharp reminder that Japan must reform its police detention system. “When initially arrested, Mainali was denied access to lawyers and was beaten, kicked and pinned against the wall by police officers during...

More than one thousand signatures collected As a part of international solidarity campaign to abolish death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International Nepal organized a demonstration and signature collection program on 10 October, 2012 in Kathmandu expressing concern over the executions in...

The Nepali cabinet’s decision on October 4, 2012, to promote a colonel suspected of involvement in war crimes to the rank of brigadier general is a slap in the face for the victims of Nepal’s protracted civil war, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists...

Amnesty International (AI) Nepal organized press conference on 1st October, 2012 in Narayangadh aiming to publicize its decision of the 21st Annual General Meeting (AGM) and its financial detail including from where money came and where that was spent. On the occasion, AI International...

The 21st National Council Meeting – Annual General Meeting (AGM) – of Amnesty International (AI) Nepal held on 29-30 September 2012 in Souraha, Chitwan. The AGM passed organization’s activity and financial report. Altogether 135 delegates participated in the AGM representing 69...

International Day of the Disappeared 2012 The families of the enforced disappearance demanded justice, truth and reparation as soon as possible. Speaking in the various programs in Kathmandu organized on the occasion of 29th International Day of the Disappeared, they expressed their anger on the...

Four human rights groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and TRIAL on 30 August  delivered an open letter to President Ram Baran Yadav, condemning the Government’s attempt to establish by ordinance a commission that would in effect permit amnesty...

Nepal’s government should investigate, not promote an Army colonel implicated in dozens of cases of enforced disappearance and torture, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International said on 22July, 2012. ‘The Nepal army should adopt a policy of...

प्रेस वक्तव्य काठमाडौं, श्रावण ४ – अस्पताल परिसरमा बलको प्रयोग अस्वीकार्य कर्णाली स्वास्थ्य विज्ञान प्रतिष्ठान जुम्लामा अनसनरत डा. गोविन्द केसीलाई हिजो श्रावण ३ गते जबर्जस्ती ढङ्गमा काठमाडौं ल्याउने क्रममा उक्त प्रतिष्ठान परिसरमा प्रहरीद्वारा भएको बलको प्रयोगप्रति एम्नेस्टी इन्टरनेसनल नेपाल...