Opinion Forum
Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Countries
In general, transitional justice incorporates the issues of promoting justice, ensuring reparation and initiate reconciliation. The process of acknowledging, prosecuting, compensating and forgiving for past crimes after the conflict is commonly descr....
Political commitment and gender equality
The issue of gender equality has been raised strongly following the success of the April movement of 2006. During the period of Panchyat System, the concept women empowerment was limited to the economic and social development. Emphasis was given in p....
Impact of Armed Conflict in Women
The decade long Maoist insurgency concluded formally with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in November 2006 and Maoists gained the leading role of the government but the wounds of insurgency are yet to be healed. Women, who were the m....
The Second Shift
The very meaning of work in the home has been changed. In earlier times, a woman’s claim to honour was based primarily on her central position in her home. This notion can be traced in ancient Vedic Hindu dharma-shastras that one of the great b....
Innocent civilians continue to be behind the Maoist’s bar in Republic Nepal
At a time when the whole country is celebrating the selection of first Prime Minister and ministers of the federal democratic republic country, many civilians are compelled to wish them from the labour camps operated by the Maoists in remote areas of....
December 10 and the Human Rights Situation
The country is celebrating the International Human Rights Day (10 December) with much fanfare but the plights of the conflict-hit people are yet to be heard. Despite the hope of the people that the country will move towards peace and stability follow....
Justice in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role Media to Play
Communication has been described as the mechanism through which human relations develop all the symbols of the mind. The Media are “the institutions and forms in which ideas, information and attitudes are transmitted and received.” The me....
Saddam Execution Mockery of Human Rights Standards
Anyone could notice the irony that the US flag was flying at half-mast on the day Saddam was executed! These are not my words. These are the words of millions who live with the virtue of the rights. Probably all of us, but at least not Saddam Hussein....
Violence against Women during Armed Conflict
Violence against women is not accidental. It is a weapon of war, a tool used to achieve military objectives such as ethnic cleansing, spreading political terror, breaking the resistance of a community, intimidation or to extract information. It has b....
