Justice still eludes Nepal’s civil war rape victims
October 1st, 2011 - 5:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Oct 1 (IANS) Five years after a decade of violent Maoist insurgency ended with the former guerrillas now heading the transitional government, hundreds of silent victims who suffered rape ... Read more...
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Five years after war, hundreds still missing in Nepal
August 30th, 2011 - 2:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 30 (IANS) Five years after a decade of civil war ended in Nepal, hundreds of people are still missing with no one punished for the extrajudicial disappearances and ... Read more...
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Nepal sees growing custodial torture of women
June 26th, 2011 - 12:33 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 26 (IANS) While a 10-year civil war saw women suffer atrocities like gangrape and torture in Nepal, both by the state and the Maoist guerrillas, their ordeal continues ... Read more...
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Nepal teenager’s murder goes unpunished even after 7 years
February 17th, 2011 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Feb 17 (IANS) Rights organisations in Nepal and abroad Thursday urged the new government of Nepal to bring to justice the army officers and soldiers responsible for the torture ... Read more...
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Nepal Army absolves schoolgirl’s murderer
July 16th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, July 16 (IANS) As the world celebrated the 12th International Justice Day Friday, human rights defenders condemned Nepal Army's acquittal of an army major found guilty of torturing a schoolgirl to ... Read more...
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NGOs slam delay in pictorial warning on tobacco packs
June 29th, 2010 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The central government's decision to postpone the display of pictorial health warnings on tobacco products was criticized by civil societies that asked why the government didn't feel ... Read more...
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Outrage against delay in pictorial warnings on tobacco products in India
June 29th, 2010 - 3:11 pm ICT by admin
By Citizen News Service (CNS)In a detractive decision of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GOI), the implementation of new pictorial health warnings has been deferred to ... Read more...
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Rights abuse reports surface on Nepal’s festival of lights
October 16th, 2009 - 4:09 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Oct 16 (IANS) As Nepal Friday began celebrating its five-day festival of lights, the merry-making was marred by human rights groups resurrecting tales of unpunished killings and torture and accusing the ... Read more...
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Tobacco firms flouting pictorial warning law, shows survey
August 25th, 2009 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Several tobacco companies across India are not carrying the mandatory pictorial warning, a new survey has revealed.
The Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC) said that ... Read more...
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Anti-tobacco group cries foul over cut in space to warnings
May 5th, 2009 - 11:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) An anti-tobacco group Tuesday urged the Election Commission to take notice of the central government move to cut down pictorial health warning area on all tobacco products, ... Read more...
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International tobacco control award for Dr Mira Aghi
March 17th, 2009 - 10:13 pm ICT by admin
By Bobby RamakantNoted tobacco control advocate and a United Nations consultant Dr Mira Aghi was conferred upon the International award in recognition of her lifetime contribution to advancing tobacco control initiatives for ... Read more...
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Government likely to further dilute tobacco control warning: NGO
January 22nd, 2009 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) As the Group of Ministers (GoM), tasked with fixing the deadline for pictorial health warnings on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products, meets Friday, an NGO ... Read more...
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Koirala’s NC calls shutdown over ‘police brutality’ (Lead)
September 12th, 2008 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 12 (IANS) Nepal's Maoist-led government faced its first opposition closure Friday with former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress (NC) party calling for a shutdown of the Kathmandu valley ... Read more...
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