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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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Arjun Bahadur Lama
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AF organized Consultation Meeting on "Confession and Evaluation of Evidences"
Kathmandu, 07 September 2015: Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) organized a consultation meeting on "Confession and Evaluation of Evidences" during criminal legal proceedings in August/September 2015 in Kathmandu, Kaski, Rupandehi, Banke and Kanchanpur ...
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances Observed
Kathmandu, 30 August 2015: Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF) - together with Conflict Victims Groups, Human Rights Organizations (National and International) and National Human Rights Commission organized a series of programs (discussion program, theatre ...
AF Organized Meeting on “Stakeholders Role in Strengthening Juvenile Justice System”
AF Provided Psycho-social Counseling for Earthquake Affected Children
Kathmandu: Advocacy Forum (AF) organized psychosocial counseling programs for earthquake victims of Khoplang VDC of Gorkha district and Khudi, Bhulbhule and Simpani VDCs of Lamjung district. The target groups of the program were students, teachers ...
AF Commemorated 18th International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Kathmandu 28 June 2015: To commemorate 18th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26th June, Advocacy Forum (AF) organized programs in Kathmandu, Kaski, Rupandehi, Banke, Kanchapur, Dhanusha, Udayapur and Morang. In the program altogether 425 participants including torture survivors, stakeholders of criminal justice system (Judges, public prosecutors, defence lawyers, police officers) government officers from various ministries, representatives from various human rights NGOs/civil societies were present.
As every year, this year too AF released its annual torture report, "Torture in Nepal in 2014: More of the same." During 2014, AF lawyers regularly visited to police detention centers of 15 districts across the country and interviewed 1916 detainees including women and children. Among them 16.2 % claimed that they were tortured and/or ill-treated in the police detention centers. Full report is available at: http://advocacyforum.org/downloads/pdf/publications/torture/TORTUREINNEPALIN2014EnglishVersion.pdf (English), http://advocacyforum.org/TORTUREINNEPALIN2014NepaliVersion1.pdf (Nepali)























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