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.
Felipe Arreaga was co-founder of the Organisation of Peasant Environmentalists of the Sierra de Petatlán (OCESP), which actively supported the 1998 roadblock in the region, denouncing the excessive felling of forests and its...
Maoist activists in Nepal have blocked major roads leading to the capital, Kathmandu, in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
Tens of thousands of Maoist protesters have blockaded Nepal's government headquarters for a second day.
Nine Western envoys have asked Nepal to set up an independent panel to trace hundreds of people who went missing during a decade-long civil war which ended three years ago.
Military police in Nepal have arrested an army major for the murder of a girl of 15 during the Maoist insurgency in what may prove to be a landmark case.
It appears the recent visit of nine Western envoys to Bardia district on Dec. 9 has ruffled the government feathers.
The envoys visited Bardia to mark the completion of one year of publication of the report of the Office of the...
More than three years after Maoist rebels negotiated a ceasefire with Nepal's other political parties, the country's peace process is looking increasingly unstable.
Thousands of supporters of Nepal's Maoist former rebels demonstrated across the nascent republic on Monday, the second day of a strike that has highlighted the fragility of a three-year peace process.
With Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and his council of ministers approving the promotion of Major General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh to the post of lieutenant-general, the army officer who has a blemished record is now eligible...