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8 September 2008

Dateline Syuchatar

OHCHR-Nepal Chief Richard Bennet and other guests in a Forum on Enforced Disappearance organized by OHCHR-Nepal on 8 September at Lalitpur.

(Photo : Gopi Krishna Bhattarai)

INSEC Welcomes Abolition of Haliya System
Kathmandu/ 8 September

Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has welcomed the decision of the government to abolish the Haliya system.

Issuing a press statement on 8 September, INSEC congratulated more than 20 thousand Haliyas stating that their struggle against this system, which human rights community had been continuously protesting against, succeeded.

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* INSEC Welcomes Abolition of Haliya System (Kathmandu/ 8 September)

* Maoists Force School Management Official to Resign (Kathmandu/ 8 September)

* Man Kills Wife (Ilam/ 8 September)

* Teacher Thrashed by YCL Cadres (Taplejung/ 8 September)

* Two Injured in Maoist-MJF Clash (Morang/ 8 September)

* Report on Food Crisis Made Public (Kathmandu/ 7 September )

* Child Arrested by Armed Police (Siraha/ 7 September )

* Labourer Tortured in Custody (Morang/ 7 September )

* Abducted Sharma Handed to Police (Jajarkot/ 7 September )

* Abducted Girl Found Dead (Sankhuwasabha/ 7 September )

* Rallies Organized to Mark National Day Against Human Trafficking (Nawalparasi/ 6 September)

* Dabur Pharma’s Employee Held Captive by YCL (Chitawan/ 6 September)

* Armed Police Thrash Woman (Jhapa/ 6 September)

* Human Rights Network Hands Over Relief Materials for Flood Victims (Sunsari/ 6 September)

* Civilian Shot Dead by Unidentified Group (Kapilbastu/ 6 September)

* Youth Force Cadres Abduct Community Forest Secretary (Banke/ 6 September)

* ANNISU (Revolutionary) Cadres Thrash NSU Cadres (Chitawan/ 5 September)

* Maoist Threaten to Shut Down FM Radio (Rupandehi/ 5 September)

* Cadres of Madhesi Janadhikar Forum and Laborers Clash Each Other (Siraha/ 5 September )

* Limbuwan Cadres Capture Goods of Businessmen (Morang/ 5 September)

Innocent civilians continue to be behind the Maoist’s bar in Republic Nepal

Pratibedan Baidya

At a time when the whole country is celebrating the selection of first Prime Minister and ministers of the federal democratic republic country, many civilians are compelled to wish them from the labour camps operated by the Maoists in remote areas of the country.

Eight civilians of Pyuthan district, who were abducted by the Maoists on various charges and slapped …

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SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN NEPAL.
REPORT OF RAPE CASES IN 2007.

Irene Pietropaoli, INSEC intern

In a global comparison of the status of women Nepal’s gender index rates at the bottom of the South Asian scale, itself at the bottom of the world scale. Although discrimination against women in Nepal varies among various ethnic and cultural groups, women remain a disadvantaged segment in all caste-ethnic and class categories of the ....

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