NHRC urges to ensure Dalit’s rights to justice and equality

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Jun 04, 2021
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Kathmandu, June 4: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to ensure Dalit’s rights to justice and equality.

A press release issued by NHRC Spokesperson Dr Tikaram Bhattarai today on the occasion of 15 years of declaring the country a caste-based discrimination and untouchability-free nation reads that cases of caste-based discrimination and untouchability have not yet decreased in the country in lack of effective implementation of laws.

The government had on June 4, 2006 declared Nepal a caste-based discrimination and untouchability-free nation.

The society has not yet become caste-based discrimination and untouchability free nation even after the 15 years of its announcement.

The NHRC expressed concern over taking inhumane incidents of untouchability and caste-based discrimination, torture and murder and rape due to untouchability, discrimination in education as well as impunity in the country in lack of timely action against those involved in such crime.