Summary: Information about institutions in Nepal that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudspersons
The Nepalese National Human Rights Commission has a dedicated Child Rights Desk, and the National Commission on Women and the District Child...
Summary: The government is making preparations to set up a juvenile court in the Valley to dispense child-friendly justice.Although there are around 30 benches in district courts across the country to hear cases related to crimes committed by...
[10 February 2012] - Children as young as six are working full time in 120 brick factories around Kathmandu.
Working in brick factories exposes workers, especially children, to irreparable health damage including acute respiratory infections, spinal...
Summary: Des enfants de six ans travaillent à temps complet dans 120 briqueteries de la région de Katmandu. Travailler dans ces briqueteries expose les ouvriers, et tout particulièrement les enfants, à des dommages irréparables sur leur santé:...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: The government has not issued eviction notices to the squatters, but has placed an announcement in the newspapers warning that the eviction will take place, he explained. A three-month rent subsidy, but no alternative accommodation, has...
[KATHMANDU, 18 January 2012] - Activists in Nepal have accused the government of failing to provide adequate support for victims of landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Thousands of people were left crippled by landmines and IEDs...
[22 December 2011] - “Only a day ago, a Dalit man in Kalikot was beaten to death for ’polluting’ a cooking stove by his touch. And just one month ago in Darchula district the relatives of a Dalit groom...
[14 December 2011] - ARTICLE 19 condemns the Nepali government’s decision not to renew the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the only branch of the United Nations watchdog in South Asia. ARTICLE 19 believes that...
Summary: Prior to the cash grants programme in one region, only 20,896 children had birth certificates, now 85,624 children do. [URTHU, 4 October 2011] - A cash grant programme to promote the purchase of nutritious food for children in the remote...
