Full Coverage: Nepal

02/28/2006 KATHMANDU: The poverty alleviation agenda of the government is being well-supported by the Fair Trade Group Nepal (FTGN) providing employment opportunities to more than 7,000 marginalised people in 46 districts of the country.

02/27/2006 Confronted by Maoist rebellion, Nepal has demonstrated the limitations of the international community, argues Pradipna Raj Panta, who says international NGOs have failed to make use of the skills of local staff.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Nepal

02/27/2006 In this second article about his troubled country, Pradipna Raj Panta turns his attention to the work of international NGOs in Nepal. He is unimpressed by their failure to draw out appropriate skills of local staff.

02/20/2006 In the first of two articles from Nepal, Pradipna Raj Panta laments the sad turn of events in his country but is equally concerned to rectify over-simplified explanations for the failure to resolve the Maoist insurgency.

02/20/2006 The Editor of the Nepal Country Guide, Pradipna Raj Panta, offers guidance notes about the key stakeholders in the conflict in Nepal

02/20/2006 Nepal on vapauttanut kymmeniä ay-liikkeen johtohenkilöitä ja aktiiveja. Osa heistä oli ollut pidätettynä lähes kuukauden. Pidätettynä on yhä kymmeniä ay-liikkeen jäseniä ja satoja muita poliittisesti aktiivisia kansalaisia, ammatillinen keskusjärjestö Gefont tiedottaa Nepalista.

02/17/2006 Nepal’s violent armed conflict between Maoist rebels and the government has been placing the civilian population in grave danger, said a report released on Thursday by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR) in Nepal.

02/16/2006 Nepal's royal government on Thursday lifted remaining restrictions on mobile phones, weeks after shutting down services to try to prevent dissidents from organizing anti-government protests, a telecommunication official said.

02/16/2006 Corruption is an old scourge in Nepal as everywhere else. The concern today is its scale and dimensions that have little resemblance with similar experience historically. First, corruption started in Nepal, like in other societies, with some greedy public officials in some offices such as customs, forest departments, land revenue departments and so on taking bribes for the service provided to their "clients".

02/15/2006 Nepal's former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been released after serving one year of a two-year prison sentence. His release came after the royal anti-corruption commission which had sentenced him was disbanded.

02/14/2006 KATHMANDU, Feb 14 (IPS) - Thirteen thousand -- plus Asmina Chapagain. The former is the estimated number of Nepalis killed since Maoist rebels hurled their first homemade bombs at the state, 10 years ago, this week. Chapagain was one of the latest innocents caught in the crossfire.

02/14/2006 New Delhi: An unprecedented public appeal by a top Nepalese Maoist leader to Indian Maoists to embrace multiparty democracy is sure to further intensify an ideological struggle among the extreme leftists in this country.

02/13/2006 In an interview to the BBC to mark the 10th annivarsary of the Maoist revolt,
Nepal's top Maoist rebel leader, Prachanda said the only future he can envisage for King Gyanendra is exile or trial.

02/06/2006 Although Nepal's government claims that national healthcare has hardly been affected by the nine year-old Maoist conflict, health workers, especially those in vulnerable rural communities, tell a different story. They say that the rebellion has had a major impact on the delivery of basic health provision in many parts of the Himalayan kingdom.

02/03/2006 On February 1st thousands of pro-democracy activists took to the streets to protest the one-year anniversary of the Royal Coup, which they consider a 'black day' for all of Nepal. As King Gyanendra spoke about democracy and human rights, hundreds of riot police used violent tactics and made dozens of arrests at demonstrations across the country.

02/02/2006 At least 21 Nepalese securitymen and four Maoists were killed during a major attack by the rebels even as over 1,000 people were arrested while holding protest rallies to mark the first anniversary of the power grab by King Gyanendra, who claimed terrorism has been contained and vowed to hold parliamentary polls by 2007.

02/01/2006 KATHMANDU, Feb 1 (IPS) - One election candidate is dead, another is recovering from a gunshot wound and dozens more live in fear in army barracks across Nepal. Nearly two weeks of daily skirmishes between armour-clad police and rock throwing, tyre-burning protesters have filled jails and turned town centres into zones of fear.

02/01/2006 Nepal risks political collapse and increased human suffering unless the royal government calls off municipal elections and cooperates in a broad-based peace process, the International Crisis Group has warned.
* OneWorld UK Nepal Guide

02/01/2006 On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the dissolution of multiparty democracy in Nepal, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law has requested American Senator Patrick Leahy to draw attention to the situation in Nepal, and in particular, the vulnerability of Dalits or so-called untouchables in the conflict.

02/01/2006 Nepalese civil society organisations and trade unions around the world have conveyed their concern over the royal crackdown on democracy and gross violations of human rights as well as the continued conflict in the Himalayan country. Read the statement by the Nepalese organisations.