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24 April 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : when does conflict finish for conflict survivors? On April 13th, 2017 The Supreme Court of Nepal issued an arrest warrant for Balkrishna Dhungel, a Maoist leader and former parliamentarian, who was convicted of a murder that took place during the Nepal’s Armed Conflict. Supreme C [...]
15 March 2017 by Ram Bhandari
Nepal : for an alternative route to resist global transitional justice “When I see the role of NGOs, human rights groups and politics, I think transitional justice is rather an experimental laboratory of various actors, where suffering families’ continue to wait for justice and gain nothing from the [...]
15 February 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal: the Transitional Justice Commissions and Victims’ Critical Engagement Transitional justice has been a stated priority throughout Nepal’s peace process following the end of the ‘People’s War’ in 2006, but it took nearly 10 years before the two truth commissions (Truth and Reconciliation Commission TR [...]
6 January 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional Justice in Nepal : Road to Justice or collapse ? In February 2017, Nepal’s transitional justice commissions will finish their two year mandate. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for the Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), were establ [...]
6 December 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : NGOs became neo-liberal business On December 10th the World will celebrate universal human rights day. The occasion will be recognized in Nepal, but unfortunately democratization and human rights have become more buzzword than practice. The policies that have bee [...]
28 November 2016 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Looking back in Nepal and Bosnia, ICC trying to look forward It was once again a week of contrasts for transitional justice, notably in Cambodia, The Hague, South Sudan, Bosnia and Nepal, reflecting how paths to national reconciliation and their difficulties differ from country to country. [...]
23 November 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional justice failing in Nepal 10 years after peace deal Nepal is this week marking the 10th anniversary of its comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) that ended the decade-long armed conflict (1996-2006) and shaped a peaceful orientation towards a new democratic Nepal. But the legacy of v [...]
2 September 2016 by Indu Nepal
Nepal’s Botched Truth and Reconciliation Process In June 2005, a bus carrying 150 people left Madi, a village on the edge of the Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal, and headed toward Narayangadh. Eight kilometers into the journey, Krishna Adhikari hailed and boarded the bus [...]
29 August 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The Disappeared and the Struggle of Justice in Nepal August 30th marks the International Day of the Disappeared, an opportunity for the world to remember those missing and disappeared during conflict. In Nepal there is little discussion about the more than 1,500 Nepalese who disappe [...]
24 June 2016 by AFP
Decade after Nepal peace pact, war crimes finally probed A handful of faded photographs has long been Suntali Rasaili's only treasured momento of her teenage daughter, allegedly executed by Nepali soldiers at the height of the Maoist insurgency. But a decade after Maoist rebels signed a [...]
13 May 2016 by AFP
Rights groups slam Nepal deal on war crimes amnesty Human rights groups on Friday slammed a deal between Nepal's ruling parties to withdraw civil war cases from courts and offer amnesty to people accused of abuses during the country's decade-long Maoist insurgency. Former Maoist re [...]
23 March 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : The right to truth “Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the truth…" stated Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, who was killed on 24th March 1980 in his struggle on searching for truth. The  United Nations General Assembly ( [...]
3 March 2016 by Dr Simon Robins
Nepal: Engaging with flawed truth-seeking processes Transitional justice mechanisms unfold in highly particular political contexts, often greatly constrained in what they are able to deliver. Indeed, the truth commission that has become the most visible signifier of a transitional [...]
29 February 2016 by François Sergent
Week in Review: Victims’ Struggles and the Failings of Justice The limits of transitional justice could be seen this week in places like Tunisia, Nepal, Togo and South Africa. In Nepal, several NGOs including TRIAL and REDRESS launched a campaign demanding justice for victims. The war there b [...]
26 February 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : justice for the victims in Nepal The decade-long Maoist insurgency and the state counter-insurgency (1996-2006) was a time when terrible things happened to a lot of Nepalis, but since most of the victims have little voice, many of these stories have yet to be hea [...]
26 February 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
NGOs Demand Real Rights for Victims in Nepal This year will mark 10 years since the end of Nepal’s conflict, in which grave human rights abuses were committed by both government forces and Maoist rebels. For years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has repeated [...]
18 February 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : In Nepal, forgotten repression in Terai of madhesi people Let’s come together and speak out for Madhesh, to address Madeshi’s agenda for justice and express our solidarity for peoples’ struggle for their rights, writes Ram Kumar Bhandari, founder of National Network of Families of the Di [...]
3 February 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : lost opportunities for transitional justice in Nepal  In the 10 years since the end of the Maoist conflict, a number of cracks have appeared in the edifice of impunity erected by Nepal’s politicians. The Supreme Court made a decision against pardoning Balkrishna Dhungel (Maoist lead [...]
4 January 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : In Nepal, the undue indian influence India has played a significant and influential role in Nepali politics and society related to all the major events of the post-conflict era. In 2005, after a decade long violent conflict (1996-2006), the seven party alliance (SPA) [...]