Demonstrations in eastern and western Nepal Various groups affiliated to Amnesty International Nepal organized demonstration and talk program urging to the concern authorities of Malaysia for the upliftment of the human rights situation of migrant workers. Nishandip Group-1, Dhankuta organized a...

International Day of the Disappeared Conflict victims and human rights organizations expressed their worried over the increasing trend of impunity in Nepal. Family members of a decade long armed conflict who were gather to mark the international day for the disappeared together with most of the...

Withdrawing Criminal Cases Would Violate International Obligations National and International Human Rights Organizations including Advocacy Forum Nepal, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Commission of Jurists urged new Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai to honor...

An workshop on Online Action held on 6 August. The main objective of the workshop held at Kakani of Nuwakot district was to empower and encourage young activists to take human rights actions using Amnesty International’s Online Action Center which is available on its website...

Nepal government again expressed it’s full commitments to ratify the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (ICC). On a talk programme ‘Why Rome Statute is not being Ratified?’ organized by Amnesty International Nepal on 20 July 2011, Minister for Energy Gokarna Bista said,...

Amnesty International, Kav La’Oved and Pourakhi are submitting a briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The briefing focuses on the organizations’ concerns regarding the situation of Nepalese women who seek to pursue opportunities to work in other...

Conflict victims and their family of Nepal’s past conflict demanded prompt legal action against perpetrators to address the widespread impunity in the country. In a talk programme organized by Amnesty International Nepal on the 1st July 2011 they said, “Government should immediately...

Amnesty International Nepal felicitated it’s founder Nutan Thapaliya for his contribution to establish Amnesty International in Nepal and also for his contribution for human rights movement in the country. He was felicitated in between the talk program organized on 1st July 2011, in...

AI Nepal launched “Make our Rights Law” campaign on 19 June amid an interaction in presence of young activists who were gathered from different part of country. To launch it, AI Nepal organized an interaction amongst representatives, human rights campaigners and young activities...

Nepal Government honored and congratulated for the contribution of AI. Amnesty International Nepal organized a grand program in Kathmandu on May 25, 2011, to celebrate 50th anniversary of Amnesty International. On the occasion Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal Bharat Mohan Adhikari shed light the...

Three international human rights orgnanization including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Commission of Jurists wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal expressing deep concern over the recent developments that reinforce long-standing impunity in Nepal. In the...

Amnesty International has expressed its concern over the deepening trend of impunity in Nepal. The organization, in its annual report, has flagged that worries. Amnesty International globally launched its annual report entitled “Amnesty International Report 2010: the state of world’s human...