Nepal: joint oral statement by the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International

The ICJ, AI and HRW express their concern that the human rights situation in Nepal remains precarious and that accountability for wartime abuses is being put further and further out of reach.

During the Human Rights Council’s 19th session in Geneva, on 27 February to 23 March 2012, the ICJ – in a joint statement with Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) – made an oral statement in the General Debate under item 2 of the Council agenda (concerning reports of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights – OHCHR). On the even of the departure of the OHCHR from Nepal, the ICJ, AI and HRW expressed their concern that the human rights situation in Nepal remains precarious and that accountability for wartime abuses is being put further and further out of reach.

Nepal-joint statement Human Rights Council-non-legal submission-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

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