Nepal

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Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.5)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2006/71/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Mission to Nepal (E/CN.4/2005/65/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (E/CN.4/2001/73/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir (E/CN.4/2001/9/Add.2)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation in Nepal (A/HRC/7/68)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (A/HRC/4/97)

Visit of the High Commissioner to Nepal (A/HRC/4/97/Add.1)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal (E/CN.4/2006/107)

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding Observations (2007)

Committee against Torture
Concluding Observations (2005)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding Observations (2005)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding Observations (2004)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding Observations (2004)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding Observations (2001)

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The mass protests of April 2006 ended the armed conflict, raising hopes for greater respect for human rights, especially after the 21 November 2006 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). However, the conflict and the period of autocratic rule left State institutions weak and subject to political pressure. Entrenched impunity for past and present abuses, inherited from periods prior to the conflict, continues to be the central obstacle to reform of government institutions, particularly local governance bodies, law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Particularly destabilizing to the peace process has been the failure to reform the police,which has led to a public security crisis that is central to the deteriorating human rights situation.
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