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Cycling Advocates Chase Up Nepali Disappearances

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Kathmandu, January 22, 2008: Human rights advocates in Nepal are using bicycles to pressure the government to resolve hundreds of disappearances.

The unusual campaign was launched on January 15 by 15 volunteers from the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP), a network of human rights groups and a partner of The Advocacy Project (AP). AP is sponsoring one of the cyclists, Ramesh Adhikari, at a cost of $376.

Nepal: Leaders, activists call for end to impunity

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   [ 2008-1-16 ]
By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Jan. 15: Both political leaders and human rights activists of national and international stature have as usual stressed on the need to setting up a commission of inquiry for making public the whereabouts of the disappeared and bring the culprits to book and thereby end the ongoing culture of impunity.

The leaders and the activists pointed out at the aforementioned urgency at the inaugural function of a 37-day nation-wide cycle rally to mount pressure on the government and the political parties to work for clarifying the status of the missing persons during the ten-year-long armed conflict and raise public awareness on the issue of impunity. The rally is organised by the Common Campaign for Peace (COCAP) as part of its concern campaign for the disappeared citizens.
TGW

On 14 January a delegation of Kathmandu based ambassadors led by the British envoy Dr. Andrew Hall called on the Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula.

The delegation comprised of the ambassadors of the US, Denmark, France (the current president of the EU in Nepal) and a representative of the European Commission.

A press release issued by the British Embassy in Nepal states that the ambassadors raised their concerns over the draft bill on disappearances and the police investigation into the death of Maina Sunuwar.

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