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Krishna Adhikari

Krishna Adhikari On 6 June 2004, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, a resident of Fujel village of Gorkha District, was murdered in Chitwan District by Maoist cadres. Krishna Prasad was visiting his grandparents after having taken the SLC examinations, and he was abducted from Bakullahar Chowk by men who came on a motorcycle ...
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Maina Sunuwar

Maina Sunuwar Around 6 am on February 17, 2004, a group of RNA soldiers arrested Ms Maina Sunuwar, a 15-year-old schoolgirl of Kharelthok VDC-6, Kavre district. She disappeared since her arrest. Her family members, with support from villagers and school where Maina was a student, visited detention centers ...
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Sanjeev Kumar Karna

Sanjeev Kumar Karna Sanjeev Kumar Karna was one among the 11 persons arrested on October 8, 2003. On that fateful day, they had gone to attend a picnic program organized by the students at a place called Kariyachauri VDC-4, and from picnic, they went to Kataiya Chowri Area of Dhanusha district where they ate some food ...
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Arjun Bahadur Lama

Arjun Bahadur Lama, 48 years in age, permanent resident of Chhatrebas VDC -5, Dapcha in Kavre district was abducted by a group of Maoist cadres, three in number, on 29 April 2005 (2062.1.16 BS) from the premises of Sri Krishna Secondary School at Chhatrebas VDC-1 of the district.
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Hari Prasad Bolakhe

Hari Prasad Bolakhe, 35 (while missing) a permanent resident of Phulbari VDC-8, Kavre district, a pastor by profession, had been missing since the arrest December 27, 2003, was reportedly killed by security persons. A team of National Human Rights Commission discovered a human skeleton in a jungle ...
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Sarala Sapkota

Around 11 p.m. on July 15, 2004, a group of 12 armed soldiers arrested Sarala Sapkota at her grandfather’s house. The family, who witnessed the arrest, stated that soldiers gave Sarala no reason for her arrest. After her arrest, Sarala’s family went to Baireni barracks and the DPO ...
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Birendra Shah

On the evening of 5 October 2007, Mr. Birendra Shah, 34, resident of Inruwasira VDC-8, Bara district, a local journalist of Bara district and correspondent of Nepal FM, Avenues Television and Dristi weekly, was abducted by Maoists from Pipara Bazaar in Kalaiya, the district headquarters of Bara ...
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Bishwanath Parajuli, Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang

Three persons namely Bishwonath Parajuli (also called Nagendra Parajuli), Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang of Hasandaha VDC, Morang were shot dead by the security personnel on 28 September 2004. According to the eyewitnesses, other victims and the villagers, about 16 people were arrested ...
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Chot Nath Ghimire and Shekhar Nath Ghimire

Chot Nath Ghimire, a 58-year-old farmer, resident of Ishaneshor VDC-4, Ratamate Majhpokhari of Lamjung district was allegedly arrested by the Joint Security Forces of Joint Security Camp stationed at Bhorlatar VDC, Lamjung district on February 2, 2002 (2058.10.20). The security camp called Mr. ...
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Bhauna Tharu

Bhauna Tharu (Bhauna Chaudhary in the citizenship card), 21 years old male (at the time of the incident; Date of Birthe: 8 September 1978), son of Purna Bahadur Chaudhary, permanent resident of Sujanpur village, Neulapur VDC-4, Bardiya district, and an employee of Rastriya Gobar Gas, Gulariya, ...
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Close Encounters

Stories from the Frontline of Human Rights Work in Nepal

Close Encounters
During Nepal’s armed conflict and its aftermath, human rights violations not only scarred and destroyed the victims but had a devastating effect on the lives of human rights defenders.
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Media Workshop on Transitional Justice and Sensitive Reporting on CRSV Issues Concluded

23 August 2024, Kathmandu: Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF), in collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Sancharika Samuha, organised a two-day media workshop on transitional justice and sensitive reporting on conflict-related sexual violence issues from 22 to 23 August 2024.

On the first day of the workshop, Senior International Legal Advisor for the ICJ Dr Mandira Sharma, Conflict Victim Women National Network Vice-Chairperson Gita Rasaili and Kantipur TV Editor-in-Chief Bijay Paudel gave individual presentations.

In her presentation, Dr Sharma set out the context of transitional justice in Nepal and commented on the strong and weak aspects of the transitional justice (TJ) bill passed by the parliament. She emphasised the media's role in raising the issues of conflict victim women's access to relief and reparation. She urged the participating journalists to report on TJ Commissions' handling of conflict-related sexual violence cases.

Rasaili's presentation focused on the status of TJ and the challenges encountered by conflict victims in getting justice. She put forth victims' reservations on the flawed TJ bill and requested the journalists to be sensitive while reporting the cases of the victims of sexual violence.

Paudel, in his presentation, provided the background of transitional justice in Nepal and focused on the do's and don'ts in reporting sexual violence. He emphasised the role of journalists in making the state more accountable to victims and urged the media persons to be victim-centric.

On the second and last day of the workshop, National Legal Advisor for the ICJ Advocate Laxmi Pokharel, Onlinekhabar.com Editor-in-Chief Shiva Gaule, Samakon Samvad Presenter and Media Personality Nirmala Sharma, South Asian Women in Media Vice-President Namrata Sharma and Sancharika Samuha Secretary Durga Karki gave individual presentations.

Pokharel's presentation focused on Gender Concerns in Nepal's Transitional Justice Process. She explained with a gender lens the positive and negative aspects of the TJ Bill passed by the parliament. She encouraged the women journalists to produce investigative stories about victims of conflict-related sexual violence.

Gaule, in his presentation, urged the participating journalists to find issues in events to build in-depth stories and continue writing victim-centric stories even if there would be reputational and other kinds of attacks on media persons.

Nirmala Sharma pointed out the lack of inclusive representation of women in news stories as sources. Saying that the whole media landscape is skewed in favour of men, she urged women journalists to incorporate women's voices in media content.

Namrata Sharma's presentation focused on Ethical and Sensitive Reporting on Gender Issues: Importance of Sensitivity in Reporting on Transitional Justice and Women Peace and Security Issues, Guidelines for Ethical Reporting and Maintaining Confidentiality. Providing examples from her own long experience as an investigative reporter, Sharma talked about the principles that guide the conduct of ethical research. She requested journalists to report stories through a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) lens.

Karki, in her presentation, delved into the strategies that women journalists can make while covering TJ issues and floated the idea of building a network of journalists for sharing information and streamlining investigations.

Participating journalists carried out group work in building strategies to cover TJ and women's issues and a member from each of the groups gave a short presentation.

A total of 15 women journalists participated in the workshop.

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