28 February 2012. An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission, Advocacy Forum, Concern for Children and Environment (Concern) Nepal, Backward Society Education (BASE) Nepal and Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (Himrights) to the Prime Minister of Nepal. (Click Letter To PM for the full text).

27 February 2012. In two recent programs organized by Advocacy Forum (AF) in Surkhet and Kanchanpur districts, women victims of sexual violence and torture demanded that the stakeholders of justice system pay attention to their demands for full justice. Still suffering from physical and psychological scars of the conflict, these victims strongly opposed the government's attitude of excluding them from internal relief they are entitled to.

17 February 2012. Participants in a program jointly organized by different human rights organizations including Advocacy Forum stressed the need to address prevailing impunity in the country and to provide justice to victims of conflict. On the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and killing of Maina Sunuwar, 15, speakers raised concern about state’s reluctance in addressing victims’ problems.

15 February 2012. A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status. The Hong Kong-based Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Nepalese human rights organisation Advocacy Forum wish to highlight the lack of progress being made in addressing enforced disappearances in Nepal, which is engendering growing frustration and suffering by victims' families.

13 February 2012. A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Advocacy Forum wish to alert the Human Rights Council to multiple attempts by the government of Nepal to shield perpetrators of human rights abuses committed during the conflict from prosecution, which promote impunity and threaten the development of functioning rule of law institutions, in violation of Nepal's obligations under the ICCPR.

13 February 2012. A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Nepalese human rights organisation Advocacy Forum wish to bring to the Council's attention the continuing and significant increase in reports of torture in Nepal over the last two years, as well as ongoing delays by the state in implementing the policing and judicial reforms required to eliminate torture and ill-treatment in Nepal.

27 December 2011. The Supreme Court (SC) has today refrained from registering a writ petition on a rape case that occurred during the conflict in Dailekh. The then lieutenant of Bhawanibaks battalion, Jibesh Thapa and three other are implicated in the rape of a 40-year old woman of Narayan Municipality of Dailekh.

7 February 2012. Speaker: Mandira Sharma. Date: 12:30pm - 1:30pm, 07 Feb 2012. Venue: Seminar Room 1.13, Coombs Extension Building #8, ANU. Nepali human rights organization campaigning against torture, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearance and sexual abuse and impunity related to these crimes in Nepal. Mandira Sharma is a leading human rights activist from Nepal, and the founder of Advocacy Forum–Nepal.

13 January 2012. Speaker: Tyrell Haberkorn, ANU; Suzanne Karstedt, Leeds University; Mandira Sharma, Advocacy Forum, Kathmandu. Date: 12:00pm - 2:00pm, 13 Jan 2012. Venue: Seminar Room 3, Hedley Bull Centre #130, ANU. This seminar will address impunity, the problem of perpetrators of serious crimes being protected from prosecution or other forms of punishment and accountability. It will examine both the theory and historical context of impunity, and its particular manifestations in Asia. It will cover questions such as why states fail to investigate certain crimes; the effect of impunity on victims; and the way that truth and reconciliation commissions affect impunity.

22 December 2011. Mandira Sharma, Founder of Advocacy Forum has received Australian Leadership Award. She is currently in Australia. She will be working mainly to strengthen networks with Australian academics and NGOs working in the field of human rights. As one of the major works of the Advocacy Forum is to combat impunity in the crimes of human rights violations, she will also be conducting research on the system of universal jurisdiction and the Australian legal system to which this relates.