Nepal's parliament elected a moderate communist leader as the new prime minister on Saturday, hours after two people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a church near the capital.

May 11 - Thousands of Maoists have clashed with riot police in Kathmandu.

May 23 - A church near the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, is targeted in a deadly bomb attack.

(Hong Kong, 20 May, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has broadcast an interview with Ms. Mandira Sharma, prominent human rights lawyer and director of Nepalese NGO, Advocacy Forum. In the interview last month, Sharma...

The First International Conference on Security and Protection For Human Rights Defenders brought together experienecd human rights defenders from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe, as well as diplomats, decision makers and...

The so-called main democratic political parties such as Nepali Congress, UML and their certain leaders who think along the line of GP Koirala can try to fool Nepali people forget all about how state army violated the human...

The Kavrepalanchowk District Court has ordered the Nepal Army to suspend Major Niranjan Basnet, one of the four accused in the Maina Sunar murder case.

The Nepal government has failed to conduct credible investigations and to prosecute those responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances three years after the end of the country's...

On Tuesday 27 October, during a meeting with Eduardo Carreño, a highly-respected human rights lawyer from the Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).

In this third edition of Namaste, PBI would like to draw attention to the issue of torture in Nepal, the lacking legal framework and the hardships faced by Advocacy Forum’s (AF) lawyers when visiting detention centers.