Nepal Government Ministers and senior government officials have expressed commitment to human rights in separate meetings to UN Human Rights Committee vice-chairperson Margo Waterval on November 5. Speaking with Waterval who is on unofficial visit to Nepal to follow-up on Committee's Concluding Observation and Recommendation, Office of the Prime Minister Secretary Raju Man Singh Malla said that the government had taken steps on three major issues stressed by the Committee viz. torture and enforced disappearance, NHRC and extra-judicial killing in…

Margo Waterval, Vice-chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee has urged the Nepal government to initiate investigation and prosecution of the perpetration of human rights violations during the conflict. Speaking at a "Follow-up Meeting to the Concluding Observations adopted by the UN Human Rights Committee in March 2014" organized in Kathmandu by Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) on November 4, Waterval stressed that the Nepal government started with implementing the most urgent recommendation of investigating the conflict related cases of human…

NHRC chairperson Anupraj Sharma has pledged that his office would do its best to ensure implementation of the recommendations by UN Human Rights Committee.  Speaking with HRC vice-chairperson Margo Waterval who is on none-official visit to Nepal on November 4, Chairperson Sharma said that he and his commissioners would remain vigilant for the recommendations’ implementation. Sharma said, “NHRC will do its best to make government execute the HRC recommendations. If it could not, then it will seek support from the…

The Human Rights Committee has concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Nepal on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on March 19, 2013. Presenting the report, Raju Man Singh Malla, Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, said Nepal was still struggling to manage political, economic and social transitions following a decade-long conflict. He added that the new Government that included the two main…

Annual General Assembly of Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee (HRTMCC) held in Kathmandu on December 20. The representatives of human rights organizations have stressed on the need of collective voice of human rights issues. Speaking at the program, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel pointed towards the need for raising the issue of legal shortcomings and implementation status. Saying that HRTMCC was a common platform to work on human rights agendas, he expressed that all the activities pertaining to Universal…

Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Center (HRTMCC), Executive Committee Meeting held on December 14, 2012 has decided to organize Annual General Assembly (AGM) on December 28, 2012 at Alfa Complex, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu from 1 pm onward. The following agendas will be discussed within the AGM:- Progress Report from the SecretariatProgress Report from the committeesFuture Action Plans, Strategies and ProgramsHRTMCC projectNew Membership and update of MembersAOB This is to inform to all HRTMCC members to attend the AGM on scheduled…

Training of Trainers on “NGO Engagements with United Nations Treaty Based Mechanisms” began with the initiation of Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee (HRTMCC), secretariat INSEC in support of Australian Aid in Kathmandu from June 20 to June 22, 2012. On this TOT program, 24 participants from eight committees’ members of HRTMCC have been participating. The objective of the program is to enhance the capacity of members’ organizations working in coordination with human rights treaty bodies mechanisms. Gauri Pradhan, Hon’ble…

13 October 2011, Geneva, HRTMCC CRC Committee  presented a report on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pronography to the Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Child Rights Commitee. On behalf of CRC Committtee Mr. Krishna Subedi, Chairperson of Child Nepal and Mr. Kapil Aryal, Consultant for the drafting of the HRTMCC report on CRC participated and updated the situation to the committee members. Child Nepal is the coordinator of…

7 August 2009: Millions more people in Nepal are suffering severe food shortages after a "sharp and sustained decline in food security" in recent years, the United Nations warned Friday. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said 3.4 million Nepalese people had become "highly to severely food insecure" due to sharp food price rises and the 2008-09 winter drought, the worst in 40 years. "In recent years, Nepal has experienced a sharp and sustained decline in food security," the WFP…

5 March 2009 – The United Nations’ top human rights official said today that combating discrimination against women, indigenous people, minorities, migrants and other vulnerable groups was the top priority for her office. “I wish to underscore once again that discrimination is all too often at the root of other human rights abuses,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, as she introduced her wide-ranging annual report to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. She also drew attention to…