Nepal: Recent Steps Undermine Transitional Justice

Expand Nepalese war victim, Pabitra Sunakhari, shows a photograph of her son as she speaks to a journalist in Birendranagar, Surkhet District, Nepal on February 2, 2017. © 2017 PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images (Geneva) – Recent steps taken by the government are a serious setback on Nepal’s transitional justice process, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and TRIAL International said today. The organizations expressed concern about the decision to appoint commissioners to the two transitional justice commissions without adequate consultations,…

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