Over five hundred young activists participated in a Candle- rally opposing violence against women in Nepal. In the rally, organized in Lalitpur on 11 January 2013 by Engineering Youth Network affiliated to Amnesty International Nepal, participants mainly young people marched through the city center...

International Migrants Day Observed Marking International Migration Day, a demonstration and signature collection program organized in front of Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) on 18th December, 2012. In an hour long event participants holding plea-cards urged Government of Nepal to ensure...

64th International Human Rights Day Special Young activists demanded truth, reparation and justice in the cases of human rights abuses during armed conflict in Nepal. Taking part in a cycle rally that organized by Amnesty International Nepal on the occasion of the 64th International Human Rights...

64th International Human Rights Day Special Amnesty International Nepal organized ‘Letter Writing Marathon’ on 9 and 10 December 2012 raising concern over individuals as risk from different countries. Marking international human rights day, it organized letter signing events (named...

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...