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Nepal
in Crisis 2005: Human Rights
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Human
Rights and Displaced People
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UN-WGEID:
Statement on disappearance cases August 2005
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August
2005
The
WGEID (Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances) regrets
that families of disappeared persons or human rights defenders are harassed,
hampered from locating their loved ones, and even accused by the authorities
of trying to destabilize the country. In particular, this is the case in
Nepal. The WGEID urges the Nepalese authorities to protect human rights
defenders from persecution for their work and to fully implement the recommendations
issued following the Working Group's country visit of last December.
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Dailekh:
Helpless and hopeless
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July
2005
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months after their uprising, the brave women of Dailekh are fending for
themselves |
For
those living in Kathmandu Valley the rest of the country may as well be
on another planet. All they care about is that things are ok inside the
Ring Road since February First.
There
may be an indefinite banda in Doti, all schools may be closed in Kailali,
healthposts in Bajura may be without medicine, there may be a food shortage
in Humla. But who cares? The people of western Nepal stopped expecting
anything from Kathmandu long ago.
The
women in Dailekh defiantly stood up against the Maoists when the rebels
stopped them from celebrating Dasain and tried to recruit their children.
But when the rebels hunted down six members of a family they thought were
ringleaders of the Dullu resistance, the other villagers fled in panic
with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
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