Amnesty International Nepal is a part of Amnesty International, a global movement of millions of people demanding human rights for all people – no matter who they are or where they are.
Amnesty International Nepal (also referred to as Amnesty Nepal or AI Nepal) is founded by Nutan Thapaliya, a lawyer by profession, in 1969 as an affiliate of the global human rights movement Amnesty International.
Amnesty Nepal envisions a world where every person enjoys all human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as within other international human rights norms and standards. In order to achieve this, Amnesty Nepal strives to undertake research and action-focused advocacy campaigns to prevent and end all forms of human rights abuses.
Amnesty Nepal is a constituent of the global community of human rights defenders with values of international solidarity, effective action for victims, global coverage, universality and indivisibility of human rights, and with impartiality and independence as the driving factors in this global movement.
Currently, AI Nepal has over seven thousand active members and activists affiliated through its various local structures such as Groups and Youth Networks in all seven provinces, who are part of a larger global movement of ten million people in 150 countries.