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Abuse Of Tibetan Exile Women In Nepal
By KTM metro Reporter
July 20, 2011: the Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) has prepared a shadow report in response to the Nepal's report to the 49th session of the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The report details abuses of Tibetan women in Nepal. The report submitted by the Nepalese government to the CEDAW in 2010 only briefly mentions refugee women, claiming that their rights are protected according to the news posted on Thetibetpsot.com.
Human Rights Watch conducted an investigation into the harassment of Tibetan women, using interviews, eyewitness accounts and accounts from medical professionals. Several specific examples are cited in the TWA report that the Nepalese police have often touched and spoken to inappropriately to the Tibetan women both at the protests at the United Nations (UN) House and the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu and at the police station following arrest. The arrest itself routinely happens without a warrant.
Welfare officers and medical examiners at the Kathmandu reception centers say that the rape of Tibetan women by the Nepali police is very common. Fearing deportation, social ostracizing or, for nuns, expulsion from their order, the women typically do not report the rape cases.
The TWA report says, “CEDAW is the strongest avenue to report the true status of Tibetan women as oppressed citizens in Tibet and as threatened refugees in host countries (in this case, Nepal) that employs an unnecessary hard-line policy.”
The UN General Assembly adopted the CEDAW Convention on December 19, 1979. CEDAW is one of the most highly ratified international human rights conventions, having the support of 186 States parties.
