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Amnesty International  Report 2012


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Nepal: The search for justice
10 January 2013

Impunity is a longstanding problem in Nepal where lack of political will to account for past and present actions of the politically well-connected is compounded ...

Report       ASA 31/001/2013

Amnesty International | UK arrest highlights Nepal's failure to ...
4 January 2013

The arrest in the UK of a Nepali man on allegations of torture is a welcome indication of the UK's readiness to comply with its international obligations in combating ...

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UK arrest highlights Nepal's failure to address torture | Amnesty ...
4 January 2013

A former Nepali miliary colonel has been arrested in the UK on allegations of torture, in a welcome example of universal jurisication being used to further accountability ...

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Amnesty International | Nepal: Promotion of War Crimes Suspect ...
6 October 2012

The Nepali cabinet's decision on October 4, 2012, to promote a colonel suspected of involvement in war crimes to the rank of brigadier general is a slap in the ...

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Nepal: Open letter concerning the executive ordinance on ...
30 August 2012

In this open letter, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, and TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity) urge the ...

Open Letter       ASA 31/004/2012

Nepal: Fears for missing Nepali: Ajit Kumar Karna
19 June 2012

A Nepali man, Ajit Kumar Karna, was reportedly arrested by police on 6 May, in connection with a bombing that killed five people and injured more than 30. Police ...

Urgent Action       ASA 31/003/2012

Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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Wire, January/February 2012. Vol. 42, issue 01
1 January 2012

1) The Agenda 2) Up Front: Life after eviction: The young women of Njemanze 3) Death from the skies 4) A migrant's journey 5) Stand up for the rights of migrants ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/001/2012

Nepal: Out on a limb: Nepalese migrant workers failed by state and ...
13 December 2011

Hundreds of thousands of Nepalese migrate abroad every year to find work. Many end up in the Gulf states or Malaysia, working under abusive and exploitative conditions ...

Document       ASA 31/008/2011

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13 December 2011

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Report       ASA 31/007/2011