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Protest Against Violence Against Women Continues In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 2, 2013: some 400 people belonging to different human rights organizations including the women human rights network, the National Federation of the Disabled Nepal, journalists, lawyers and members of the civil society staged a sit-in at the entrance to the prime minister’s official residence in Kathmandu today from 9 to 11 am demanding judicial probe into the incident of violence against women (VAW) that took place recently in different places of the country including in Kathmandu and taking stern action against the culprits, according to the RSS/thehimalayantimes.com.
At a news conference held in Kathmandu today, the Nepal Women's Association (NWA) has drawn the attention of the government to the increasing incidents of violence against women and to the need for guaranteeing the rule of law, and announced that it will launch a movement to put the pressure on the government for bringing the culprits of violence against women to justice. NWA, further, rapped the government for not paying due attention to violence against women even when women's sanctity was being robbed and incidents of violence against women has been increasing in a serial manner, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
In a news release today, the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare has said that the incidents of Violence Against Women (VAW) taken place since some days have been blots on the human civilization in the 21st century; it is fully committed to book the culprits of these incidents that have put mankind itself to shame and to bring them to justice. The positive cooperation and collaboration of all the governmental and non-governmental organizations and the civil society is expected to that end, the Ministry said in the news release, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today.
In a symbolic protest against the failure of the government to bring the perpetrators of violence against women in various parts of the country to justice, women rights activists in the Dhading district have presented the gift of a pair of handcuffs to Chief District Officer Bed Prasad Pokharel to pass the gift on to the prime minister, after staging a sit-in in front of the District Administration Office in Dhading today, according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today. "If it is because the state has run out of handcuffs, we are sending these handcuffs so that the perpetrators of violence against women are arrested and punished", reads a memorandum handed along with the handcuffs.
