Press Release
The failure of the US-based chemical company Dow to provide remedy to victims of a deadly gas leak from a pesticide plant in India that resulted in the deaths of more than 22,000 people has created a “sacrifice zone” in which 500,000 more continue to suffer, Amnesty International said in a new...
March 29, 2024
ACTIVITIES
In today’s age of rapid digitalisation, the role of media has expanded and evolved to encompass a multitude of functions that are instrumental in shaping the public imagination and discourse. In just the past few years in Nepal, the media sphere has seen rapid changes, with traditional media...
March 27, 2024
Appeal for Action
साउदी अरेबियाका अधिकारीहरूले देशका सबै आलोचनात्मक आवाजहरूलाई मौन पार्ने आफ्नो अभियानलाई तीब्रता दिइरहेका छन्। मानवअधिकार सुधारका लागि आह्वान गर्दै वा अधिकारीहरूको आलोचना गर्दै सामाजिक सञ्जालमा केबल पोष्ट मात्रै गर्नाले पनि दशकौं कैद, यात्रामा प्रतिबन्ध, वा मृत्युदण्डको समेत सजाय हुनसक्छ। यसैबीच,...
March 27, 2024
Media Quote
Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said: “The Commission on the Status of Women has...
March 27, 2024
ACTIVITIES
In urban areas in Nepal, including in Kathmandu valley, street vendors are not only increasingly facing incidents of harassment, seizure of merchandise goods, and manhandling by the municipal authorities, but are also becoming victims of intolerance and even hostility. The right to life, dignity...
February 14, 2024
Appeal for Action
On 30 November 2023, the Supreme Court of Russia ruled to recognize “the international public LGBT movement” as “extremist”. This has effectively outlawed any public association with the LGBTI community. Russia must immediately review this ruling to prevent widespread persecution of LGBTI people....
February 1, 2024
ACTIVITIES
Ever since Muktinath Adhikari, an educator and activist, was brutally murdered by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) cadres in Lamjung for allegedly refusing to pay donations on 16 January 2002 (BS 2058 Magh 3), Amnesty International Nepal and Muktinath Adhikari Memorial Foundation have...
January 18, 2024
Press Brief
चन्दा नदिएको आरोपमा तत्कालीन नेकपा (माओवादी) का कार्यकर्ताहरूद्वारा २०५८ साल माघ ३ गते लमजुङका शिक्षक तथा अधिकारकर्मी मुक्तिनाथ अधिकारीको निर्ममतापूर्वक हत्या गरिएको भोलि २२ वर्ष हुँदै छ। २२ वर्ष बितिसक्दा पनि अन्य द्वन्द्वकालीन मानवअधिकार उल्लङ्घनका पीडित परिवारले जस्तै उनको परिवारले अझै उनको...
January 17, 2024
Press Brief
On January 17, it will be 22 years since educator and activist Muktinath Adhikari was brutally murdered by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) cadres in Lamjung for allegedly refusing to pay donations back in 2002. Twenty-two long years on, his family, and many like his, still await justice...
January 17, 2024
ACTIVITIES
With an aim to contributing to ensure authorities respect, protect and promote peoples’ right to freedom of peaceful assembly as per international human rights standards and obligations, and to confront unprecedented worldwide threat to the right to protest, Amnesty International is running a...
January 5, 2024
December 22, 2023
Press Brief
प्रेस विज्ञप्ति २०८० मंसिर २९ विश्व नेतृत्वउपर अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय दबाब कायम राख्न र इजरायल र अधीनस्थ प्यालेस्टाइन क्षेत्रमा दिगो युद्धविरामको आह्वानलाई अझ सशक्त बनाउने उद्देश्यका साथ यही पौष २ गते (१८ डिसेम्बर २०२३) विभिन्न नागरिक सङ्घसंस्थाले विश्वभरी संयुक्त रूपमा ग्लोबल डे अफ याक्सन (Global Day of...
December 20, 2023