On 21 April 2020, the High Court Tulsipur, Neplagunj Bench has ordered to release 9 prisoners from Nepalgunj Prison. The Court order states, "On behalf of applicants Prajun Giri et. al. against the District Court Banke including others on the habeas corpus writ (076-WH-0007), after studying the habeas corpus writ application, written response included in the case file and copies of court decisions presented by the applicants, based on the decision of the Supreme Court made on 20 March 2020 [2076/12/07] and the subsequent decision made by the full bench of the Supreme Court (press statement) at this critical situation of pandemic, the order for habeas corpus is issued as per the applicants' request." The order further writes, "Release all the applicants after they pay monetary fine as per the law for their remaining jail term."

Responding to the writ petition (habeas corpus) filed by Advocacy Forum-Nepal on 9 April 2020, the Supreme Court issued an order against the Kathmandu District Court, District Government Attorney Office (Babarmahal), Narcotics Control Bureau (Koteshwor), Child Correction Home (Sano Thimi), Bhaktapur to release the illegally detained juveniles on parental custody. The juveniles were subsequently released on 14 April 2020.

11 lawyers along with representatives from Advocacy Forum registered a writ of habeus corpus against Banke District Court and Prison Office Banke which decided to not release the prisoners who are convicted for the first time and serving upto 1 year of imprisonment upon payment of legal charges as per the decision of the full bench of the Supreme Court dated 20 March 2020. The writ was filed when the District Court Banke refused to release 9 out of 11 prisoners of Nepalgunj Prison who applied to be released as per the decision of the Supreme Court.

9th April 2020, Kathmandu: On 3rd of April 2020 [21st Chaitra 2076] Advocacy Forum-Nepalgunj, Banke, in coordination with District Bar Association Banke, organized a meeting with the District Court and High Court Banke, Police and Child Correction Home regarding the implementation of the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) and preventative measures taken by the concerned stakeholders during the lockdown to prevent the spread of CoViD-19.

Kathmandu: Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) organized provincial level interaction program titled “Major Concerns of Conflict Victims’ in Transitional Justice Process and the Role of Stakeholders” in Biratnagar, Janakpur, Nepalgunj, Pokhara and Dhangadi in October and November 2019. In the program, altogether 214 participants including Minister of State for Law and Internal Affairs, Members of Provincial Assembly, Conflict Victims, Local Government Representatives (Mayor, Deputy Mayor), Human Rights Defenders, Lawyers, Government Officials, Media Persons and Civil Society activists attended and actively participated in the interaction programs. 

On 19 September 2019, Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) organized a medico-legal training program in Kathmandu. The training was aimed to capacitate doctors to document the cases of torture and sexual violence more effectively and accurately so that the medico-legal documents can be used in the court of law as a strong evidence. The major focus of the program was to train medical professionals on the documentation of psychological torture and the cases where no physical signs of torture are observed/found. Altogether, 27 participants including doctors and lawyers attended the training whereby Professor Dr. Harihar Wasti and Assistant Professor Dr. Sagun Bhallav Pant facilitated the training sessions. 

Kathmandu 25 June: Advocacy Forum (AF) launched an annual torture report entitled "Rise of Torture in 2018: Challenges Old & New Facing Nepal" on 25 June 2019 in Kathmandu amidst a program. The report was jointly unveiled by Honorable Anup Raj Sharma, Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission, Senior Advocate Tanka Prasad Dulal, General Secretary of AF and torture survivors duo Kalpana Bhandari and Tika Dhakal. The report launch program was attended by the victims, Attorney General Office, District Attorney, Supreme Court Bar, representatives from NGOs and INGOs, Human Rights Section of Nepal Police, journalists and law students. Altogether more than 50 persons participated in the program.

Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) and Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) jointly organized a workshop on Enforced Disappearance in Asia on 27 and 28 May 2019 at Hotel Himalaya, Lalitpur Nepal. The main objectives of the program were to shed light on the best practices, challenges and existing remedies of various countries, the effort of the government in addressing the cases of enforced disappearance and strategies to combat enforced disappearances.

On the occasion of the International Week of the Disappeared 2019, Advocacy Forum-Nepal together with Conflict Victims' Society for Justice (CVSJ-Nepal) organized and hosted events in Illam, Pokhara, Nepalgunj and Kathmandu during the last week of May 2019.  The program was primarily attended by conflict victims, victims’ families of those disappeared, representatives from human rights organizations, civil society members and local government representatives.  The activities included a discussion program on the situation of the family and the ongoing debate of TJ process, the pain and suffering of victims and how their issues can be addressed at the local and national level. Now, victim families in Nepal have joined hands with the victims’ families of the disappeared from around the world and fight together in search of their disappeared loved ones. 

Kathmandu: On May 9th and 10th 2019, Advocacy Forum (AF), in coordination with Conflict Victims Society for Justice (CVSJ),organized a two day training sessions on "Psychosocial Accompaniment and Documentation," for 13 family members of enforced disappearance victims during the conflict period in Nepal, in Nepalgunj, Banke district. The participants were from Banke and Bardiya districts. The objective of the training session was to empower family members of disappearance victims to provide psychosocial accompaniment for other victims, to document cases of human rights violations and to support the victims' family advocacy to bring attention to their cases on the national and international level.