Author: Himalaya Post

Kathmandu – Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa today committed to bringing the murderer(s) of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta of Kanchanpur who was raped and murdered, to justice. “Panta’s murderer(s) could be brought to justice. I assured all of this. Additional investigations are ongoing into the incident acting on the report submitted by the probe commission. The results will come out soon,” he said at a meeting of the Women, Children, Senior Citizens and Social Welfare under the Legislature-Parliament. He also said the government has accorded a high priority to ending all sorts of violence against women, while urging collective efforts and non-politicisation in VAW. “Any types of crimes that promote VOW like alcohol and illegal drugs related crimes and pornography should be ended. And the government is working on it,” he said. Secretary Prem Rai stressed the need for collective efforts and coordination between inter ministries in stopping VOW. Likewise, Inspector General of Police Sarbendra Khanal said that the police were committed to drawing VOW to a...

Kathmandu – Women, Children and Social Welfare Committee of the Federal Parliament is to expedite the activities to control the incidents of gender based violence, criminal activities like rape that have increased in the country of late. Likewise, the committee shall carry out the monitoring and protection of children and senior citizens’ rights effectively. A meeting of the Committee held at Singh Durbar today drew the conclusion that the Committee would play active role in making the activities related to rights of women, children and senior citizens and social welfare council transparent and effective. Saying different incidents like rape, murder and violence against women have increased in the country in recent period, Committee President Nirudevi Pal said that the Committee would take special initiative to minimize such incidents and take legal action against the guilty. The Committee further said that it would drew attention of all bodies concerned for effective mobilization to minimize incidents of violence against women and would launch awareness campaign across the country coordinating with Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen. On the occasion, Committee members including Parbat Gurung, Ganesh Thagunna, Laxmi Pariyar, Hira Gurung, Amrita Thapa Magar, Khem Prasad Lohani and Kumari Meche stressed that the Committee should monitor the activities of different commissions systematic and effective. The members further said that the Committee should regulate and interfere the activities of NGOs in order...