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Nepal's High Level Probe Commission submitted its final report Monday to the Nepalese government, concluding that King Gyanendra and some 200 members of his administration were responsible for the violent response to the...

A Nepal newspaper reported Tuesday that a blue-ribbon panel investigating possible human rights violations in the police response to anti-democracy protests last spring that left 22 dead and more than 5,000 wounded will blame King Gyanendra...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) has urged the Seven Party Alliance Government and the Maoist faction in Nepal to adhere to their commitments to protect human...

The Parliament of Nepal passed a law Friday that formally divests King Gyanendra and the royal family of power over the Nepalese Army. Friday's legislation affirmed parliament's proclamation ...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama has confirmed that the Rwandan Parliament would be presented a bill in December aimed at abolishing capital punishment in the African nation. The legislation, immensely unpopular with the...

Nepal's Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) on Friday presented a draft constitution to government officials and Maoist rebel representatives participating in the negotiations. The interim draft encompassing 172 articles is designed to replace the current...

Negotiators for Maoist rebels in the Nepal constitutional talks expressed reservations Thursday that the draft interim constitution, to be presented Friday, does not address the key issue of whether the new government should retain elements of the former monarchical...

Nepal's High Level Probe Commission Thursday questioned army chief Pyar Jung Thapa as part of the panel's continuing investigation of alleged human rights abuses during pro-democracy protests in April which brought an end to the 14-month...

Work on the new interim constitution of strife-torn Nepal formally began Thursday, the six-person Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) announced at a press conference. The ICDC, formed three weeks ago in a historic contract [text; JURIST...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged Nepal's Maoist Communist Party (CPN-M) to end alleged abductions and other abuses committed by the party. In a...