Disappearances Commission and Truth and Reconciliation Commission should meet international human rights standards
The ICJ today urged the Government of Nepal to ensure that laws related to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a Disappearances Commission are adopted through regular democratic legislative processes.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, A/HRC/7/3/Add.1, 19 February 2008: Nepal
Nepal, Date: 02/05/07 165. D. C., a 16-year-old from Tarahara VDC-8, and Ms. Sarita Choudhary, a 20-year-old from Pakali VDC-1. Both women belong to a low caste in the Sunsari district of Terai, where the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is exercising delegated...Sunil Babu Pant and Others/ v. Nepal Government and Others, Supreme Court of Nepal (21 December 2007)
(Note: Summary based on translation published in National Judicial Academy Law Journal, 2 NJA Law Journal 2008, pp. 261-286.) Procedural Posture In April 2007, the Blue Diamond Society, MITINI Nepal, Cruse AIDS Nepal, and Parichaya Nepal, all organizations...
ICJ welcomes order of interim Legislature-Parliament to draft law on enforced disappearences
The ICJ today welcomed the order of Nepal’s interim Legislature-Parliament instructing the Government to draft a law on enforced disappearances.
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