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OHCHR in Nepal
2008-2009
2006-2007

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Archived news
(over 3 years old)

OHCHR position on UN support to the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: 16 February 2016
(Word | PDF)

Nepal: Conflict-related human rights violations need to be investigated without any further delay 

The Nepal Conflict Report

OHCHR Comments on Nepal TRC Ordinance (Word)

OHCHR Technical Note on the Nepal Act on the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation (2014) (Word | PDF)

Publications

OHCHR report 2015 OHCHR Report 2015
OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017 OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
Brochure: Human Rights in action Human Rights in Action (PDF)
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Nepal


Following the decision of the Government of Nepal to not renew the mandate of OHCHR's Country Office in Nepal, OHCHR's field presence formally closed operations on 31 March 2012. This website remains as a reference.

 

Nepal

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Nepal and UN Charter-based Bodies

Nepal and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people  - Mission to Nepal (A/HRC/12/34/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.5)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2006/71/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2005/65/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (E/CN.4/2001/73/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir (E/CN.4/2001/9/Add.2)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report of the HC on the human rights situation and the activities of her office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (A/HRC/19/21/Add.4)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (A/HRC/16/23)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (A/HRC/13/73)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation in Nepal (A/HRC/10/53)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation in Nepal (A/HRC/7/68)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (A/HRC/4/97)

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/NPL/CO/3-5

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/OPAC/NPL/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2014) E/C.12/NPL/CO/3

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2014) CCPR/C/NPL/CO/2

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2012) CRC/C/OPSC/NPL/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2011) CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/4-5

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2007) CAT/C/NPL/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2004) CERD/C/64/CO/5


>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

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