Nepal’s Universal Periodic Review

Click to expand Image Activists hold an event in memory of people who were disappeared during Nepal’s decade-long civil war, Kathmandu, August 30, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Geneva) – Nepal has failed to live up to its commitments on transitional justice, or to carry out the recommendations from the last United Nations review of its human rights record, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the UN Human Rights Council for Nepal’s forthcoming review. Nepal has also not met pledges it subsequently made when seeking election to the Human Rights Council in 2017. Under the Universal Periodic…

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