Category: Human Rights

Of the total 1,356 Victoria Crosses, the highest military decoration given by the British monarch, awarded worldwide since its inception in 1856, 13 were given to the Gurkhas. Unfortunately, none of these bravery medals are in Nepal now. Neither the government offices have any record where these medal are...

This is the continuation of the article you read below about the HRW report published recently. I feel the report is so limited and incomplete, if not biased. The gross human rights violation is in eastern Bhutan for centuries. The crackdown in south began only two decades back. But...

The latest news that google delivered me was the report published by the New York based group called Human Rights Watch about the human rights situation in this country. It almost consumed my whole day to go through, repeatedly so that I can catch what exactly was said, without...

Even as the peace process in the country moves ahead quite smoothly, the government and the Maoists seem to have overlooked the problem caused by landmines and other explosives left carelessly by the rebels and the security forces. There have been calls from several national and international groups in...

While Bhutanese refugees want to go back to their country after nearly two decades of exiled life in Nepal, the international community, especially the US, Canada backed by the UN refugee agency, have lately been repeatedly advocating for taking these ill-fated people to mesmerised western society. In her recent...

Three days after armed soldiers – led by a Nepali Army (NA) captain—surrounded a police post at the heart of Nepali capital, abducted three policemen, and tortured for nearly two hours, the role of army in the changed context continues to be debated. Parliamentarians, media, human rights activists and...