INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, December 8
Chair of the National Human Rights Commission Anup Raj Sharma today said there were many challenges to protect and
promote human rights in the country
He said this after submitting the rights body annual report to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
Sharma said the bill brought by the
government to amend the NHRC Act was aimed at curtailing the independence and autonomy of the rights body
He said there were ambiguities in the powers between the NHRC and other constitutional commissions
Sharma said the conflict victims had not been able to get justice even 13 years after the end of conflict.
Sharma said people were still
deprived of enjoying their constitutional rights as problems of child marriage, violence against women continued unabated in the country and
people lacked access to justice and health services
Sharma said the government was not paying attention to the concerns of deprived communities, indigenous nationality, differently abled,
Dalit, women, senior citizens and sexual minorities.
Stating that impunity was still a challenge, Sharma said the NHRC was not getting
cooperation from the government and its recommendations were not being implemented by the government.
According to the annual report, NHRC
received 232 complaints this year and it carried out its investigation in 600 complaints including those lodged in previous years
The rights body decided and issued recommendation in 82 cases besides carrying out 219 human rights protection programmes
It has published 26 reports this year.
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