INSEC has documented 6,285 victims of Human Rights Violation and Abuses in 2021. Among the documented victims of Human Rights violation, 52 were females and 510 were males. There were 5,163 female and 560 male victims of Human Rights abuses.
Among the documented victims of human rights violation, six were killed, 74 died in jail, five died in detention, three were victims of torture, six were victims of threatening, 363 were deprived of their right to assembly, expression and association, 30 were injured, seven were victims of inhumane behavior, 32 were victims of beating and 35 were arrested.
This year, 3,417 were victims of women rights violation and 1,522 were victims of child rights violation.
Among the documented cases of human rights violations and abuses, 16 percent were from Province 1, 11 percent from Madhesh Province, 17 percent from Bagmati Province, eight percent from Gandaki Province, 23 percent from Lumbini Province, seven percent from Karnali Province, and 12 percent from Sudurpaschim Province. Eighty-six percent of the total cases pertained to violations and abuses against women and child rights.
The discrimination, violence, and exclusion against women violates the humanitarian principles of equality and respect. INSEC’s documentation shows a surge of barriers, in the last decade, as result of a person’s gender identity, adversely impacting their dignity, security, and a spectrum of political, economic, social, cultural rights. Forty-nine percent of the cases documented in the last 10 years relate to the violations of women rights. Sixty percent of the cases documented this year pertain to women rights violations. Fifty-two women were victims of human rights violation by the State and 5161 women were victims of human rights abuse. Sixty-one percent of the total human rights abuses were related to women rights violation and 25 percent were of child rights violation.
In the last five years, INSEC has documented suspicious trends in relation to death in custody. A total of 19 deaths were documented in this period. The rise of human rights violations and accountability gap in cases of custodial death authorities have not elicited response or actions from authorities. There is criticisms in mass media that the State’s treatment of detainees is based on their caste, structural control, and poverty and thus, extra-legal. No appropriate actions or investigations on the suspicious custodial deaths, and no prosecutions ever demonstrate the dwindling accountability of State institutions on this issue.