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OHCHR-Nepal Head Sanghera Calls For Enforcement Of UPR Recommendations
By KTM Metro Reporter
February 7, 2011: in a statement issued in Kathmandu today, Head of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) Jyoti Sanghera said, "OHCHR is encouraged that the Government of Nepal has voluntarily expressed its commitments to continue its holistic and comprehensive approach to the promotion and protection of human rights and to put in practice a rights-based approach to development of all sectors," ‘Nealnews.com’ writes today. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights situation in Nepal has been held in Geneva, Switzerland from January 25 to 27, 2011.
She said, "It is important that the Government and all relevant counterparts now build on the momentum of the UPR through the concrete implementation of the accepted recommendations and a detailed consideration of the other recommendations."
Head of OHCHR-Nepal Sanghera has been concerned with the Government of Nepal not accepting the recommendations including the ratification of a few important international human rights conventions and other recommendations concerning the investigations into allegations of extra-judicial killings in the Terai region.
United Nations Human Rights Council has made recommendations at the UPR for eliminating caste-based discrimination, stopping gender-based violence, ensuring accountability for human rights violations, and strengthening national human rights institutions, nepalnews.com reports.
