Articles

• How Nepal Police is misusing urgent warrant of arrest : Kantipur’s analysis of arrest procedures of 788 suspects in the Valley in a month shows urgent warrants were used in 80 percent of all arrests, by Tufan Neupane (kp 12/04/2026)

• When power swells, does dissent shrink? The media landscape has become a digital colosseum where trolls drown out nuanced critique, by CK Lal (kp 08/04/2026)

• When dissent invites digital lynching. Is Nepali social media growing hostile to differing views? Sociologists say increasing online attacks are creating a chilling effect in society, leading people to self-censorship, by Daya Dudraj (kp 07/04/2026)
  

• When Justice Fails the Most Vulnerable (rep 02/04/2026)

• No more delay : The government should uphold the principle that reparations are the right of victims (kp 02/04/2026)

• An apology isn’t enough : The state has finally recognised its mistakes. But will this government hit the rigid caste structure?, by Mitra Pariyar (kp 31/03/2026)

• Planned ban on student unions sparks debate on fundamental right : The government aims to dismantle all political student unions in educational institutions within 60 days, by Purushottam Poudel (kp 31/03/2026)

• Teen protester targeted with online abuse after defending KP Sharma Oli during demonstrations (kh 31/03/2026)

• Nepal’s Constitutional Right to Health: Promise vs Delivery, by Sudhir Khanal (rep 26/03/2026)

• Two generations in a makeshift home under a boulder : A Chepang family in Dhading has been living in a tiny, natural shelter, enduring elements, and foraging wild tubers, by Poshnath Adhikari (kp 25/03/2026)

• Conflict victims ask new government to ensure credible transitional justice : On the International Day for the Right to the Truth, they called for transparent, victim-centred commissions and comprehensive reparation programmes (kp 24/03/2026)

• Dalit Women Denied Leadership Role, by Ishwara Siwa (rn 24/03/2026)

• Leaking roofs and dry taps make life miserable for Chepangs : In a village at the foot of Kaminchuli, one of Chitwan’s highest peaks, at least six households face a severe drinking water crisis as soon as winter sets in, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 23/03/2026)

• Before a girl is raped and killed : If we want fewer names on protest banners tomorrow, we must start listening to the unheard voices today, by Prakriti Thapa (kp 22/03/2026)

• NHRC implicates Oli, Lekhak, officials over protest crackdown : Watchdog says the government’s failure to anticipate the magnitude of protest led to avoidable deaths, destruction, by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/03/2026)

• Children misused in electioneering despite promises, study finds ; Over 300 cases of the use of minors were reported during the campaigning and after the election , by Binod Ghimire (kp 22/03/2026)

Texts

Challenges Persist on Nepal's Press Freedom : 'Year of inaction' on law and policy for free press, report by Freedom Forum, Kathmandu, 3 May 2024

Best Practices of Human Rights in a Democratic Country, by Govinda Prasad Guragain. Pragyan 4:1,29-38 (2023)

“No-one cares”: Descent-based discrimination against Dalits in Nepal, report by Amnesty International 2024

Nepal events of 2024. World Report 2024, pp. 449-454, by Human Rights Watch

2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nepal, by US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 2024

Nepal Human Rights Yearbook 2024, by INSEC, Kathmandu 2024

2022 Report on International Religious Freedom: Nepal, by US Department of State, 15 May 2023

Links

Daily updated link collection (Nepal Research)

Human Rights Forum Nepal (HURFON) (link collection on Human Rights by Nepal Research)

National Human Rights Commission, Nepal (NHRC)

Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) [see also online portal]

Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP)

Advocacy Forum Nepal (AF)

Lawyers' Association for Human Rights and Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP)

Nagarik Aawaz (a peacebuilding organisation started during the armed conflict)

National Network of Families of Disappeared and Missing Nepal (NEFAD)

Tarai Human Rights Defenders Alliance (THRD)

Freedom Forum

Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) (on Nepal)

Forum-Asia : Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (on Nepal)

Amnesty International, Nepal

Human Rights Watch (HRW) (on Nepal)

Presentations

Human rights (introduction)

Women

Videos

Nepal's children at risk (26:00)

Kindersklaven in Nepal (2019) (2:14)

Nepal's Fake Orphans (26:00)

Police baton charge doctors at Jumla (1:05) (because of hunger strike of Dr KC against govt, 20/07/2018)

Protests in Nepal over citizenship rule change (3:49)

Nepal - Soll Sextourismus gefördert werden? (2018) (5:35)

Women activists in Nepal call for equality on citizenship bill (2:20)

Twelve years after Nepal conflict, justice eludes victims (2:58)

Wenn Freiwilligenarbeit in Nepal es gut meint, aber alles noch schlimmer macht (19:07)