KATHMANDU, JUL 05 -
Human rights organisations in the country have jointly submitted a report to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council (HRC) for discussion at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in February next year. The report highlights the concerns and situation of human rights in Nepal in the past four years with recommendations for improvement.

The report will be reviewed as a “shadow report” vis-à-vis the “national report” to be submitted by the government to the HRC. The UPR, a mechanism established by the UN Secretary General in 2006, will grill 16 UN member states, including Nepal, in February 2010 on human rights issues. The UPR report has implications on the respective country’s prospects of international aid, among others.

The UPR will be an important event for Nepal as the country’s human rights records will undergo first-ever UN scrutiny.

The report prepared by organisations, including National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Women Commission and National Dalit Commission, has recommended reforms on laws, policies and process of their implementation to ensure equality and to end discrimination.

The report also urges the government to pass without delay the NHRC Bill pending in the parliament and to ensure that the bill complies with the Paris Principles on autonomy and independence of national human rights monitors, and to implement the recommendations made by the NHRC and the court on cases involving human rights violations.


Posted on: 2010-07-06 03:46

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