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Cases Of Violence Against Women
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 15, 2013: Police are either dismissive or are reluctant to pay heed to the cases of violence against women (VAW), according to the report of the committee assigned to study such cases. The report of the committee presided over by Rajuman Singh Malla, Secretary to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers blames the lackadaisical approach of the police department for the increasing cases of VAW. The government set up the committee on December 30, 2012 to study the cases of Sita Rai (not real name) robbed and raped by the immigration officials at the Kathmandu International Airport upon her return from Saudi Arabia, Shiwa Hashami and Bindu Kumari Thakur burnt alive, Saraswati Subedi allegedly killed, and Chhori Maya Maharjan missing for about a year now. The committee is submitting its final report to Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai tomorrow, according to thehimalayantimes.com news.
The Metropolitan Police of the Bhaktapur Sector has posted two policemen in civil dress on each public vehicle plying on the Bhaktapur–Kathmandu, Bhaktapur- Lalitpur and Bhaktapur-Kavre routes to counter the VAW starting today. Security personnel in civil dress also make sure reserved seats for women and handicapped people. People found misbehaving women and the handicapped will be provided counseling at first and at the subsequent offences will be persecuted following the Public Offence Act, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com of today.
In a press statement released in Kathmandu today, UN Women, UNICEF and UNFPA have said that despite Nepal’s strong normative and legal commitments to end gender based violence and inequality, recent events indicate that many women and girls are waiting for respectful and equal treatment. The recent highly publicized cases of rape, murder and disappearance of Nepalese women have rightly sparked off protests against the wider issue of violence against women and girls in Nepal. “The wide public attention that is now being generated has created momentum that we cannot allow it to simply subside. It must be supported if real change is to occur in Nepal and globally”, read the statement, and committed to support the efforts on ensuring the rights of all women and girls, and allowing them to live free of violence lives, according to THT ONLINE of today.
Nepal as a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is legally bound to enforce the CEDAW provisions; however, the recent events painfully illustrate too many women and girls are still waiting for respectful and equal treatment, according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ of today.
