Child Right In Nepal
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nepal is an independent and autonomous body established in the year 2000 under the Human Rights Commission Act
1997. The Interim Constitution of Nepal-2007 upgraded the status of the Commission as a constitutional body.
The Article 132(1) of the Constitution has stated that the Commission shall have the duties of ensuring respect protection and promotion of the human rights and their effective implementation.
Depending upon the seriousness of the issues, the Commission has been publishing the different reports, from time to time, with objectives of disseminating the information on its activities to the stakeholders and the general public, making public the status of the human rights and drawing the attention the government. In accordance with these objectives, the Commission has published this annual report (January 2008 –
December 2008) compiling the report on the monitoring and the investigation of the cases based on complains registered in the Commission, including the status of the Child
Rights and their legal aspects. The report has also included the recommendations of the
Commission forwarded to the Government of Nepal and the political parties; the promotional activities and the reformative aspects initiated by the commission.
The report is mainly based on complains received by the Commission, the facts collected during monitoring and investigation and the information received from the media, different organization and other sources.
While all the details of the violations of the child rights, excesses and discoursing events were not possible to be incorporated in the report because of the lack of resources and time, the report, nevertheless, has attempted to give the accounts of status of the child rights of 2008.
Child Rights are the rights implemented especially on the children to ensure rights from their prenatal stage to the stage of adolescent. CRC has made provisions that
1997. The Interim Constitution of Nepal-2007 upgraded the status of the Commission as a constitutional body.
The Article 132(1) of the Constitution has stated that the Commission shall have the duties of ensuring respect protection and promotion of the human rights and their effective implementation.
Depending upon the seriousness of the issues, the Commission has been publishing the different reports, from time to time, with objectives of disseminating the information on its activities to the stakeholders and the general public, making public the status of the human rights and drawing the attention the government. In accordance with these objectives, the Commission has published this annual report (January 2008 –
December 2008) compiling the report on the monitoring and the investigation of the cases based on complains registered in the Commission, including the status of the Child
Rights and their legal aspects. The report has also included the recommendations of the
Commission forwarded to the Government of Nepal and the political parties; the promotional activities and the reformative aspects initiated by the commission.
The report is mainly based on complains received by the Commission, the facts collected during monitoring and investigation and the information received from the media, different organization and other sources.
While all the details of the violations of the child rights, excesses and discoursing events were not possible to be incorporated in the report because of the lack of resources and time, the report, nevertheless, has attempted to give the accounts of status of the child rights of 2008.
Child Rights are the rights implemented especially on the children to ensure rights from their prenatal stage to the stage of adolescent. CRC has made provisions that