The 20th session of the National Assembly of Pakistan, which in fact marked the beginning of the third parliamentary year, commenced on March 17, 2010 and ended on March 31st, 2010. Business conducted in this session included legislation, call…
KATHMANDU, JUN 28 – The government of Nepal has continued to improve efforts to combat human trafficking despite limited resources, according to the 11th US Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.
However, the report released by the U.S. Department of State in Washington, says the country has not fully complied with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
According to a statement issued by Public Affairs Section at the US Embassy in Kathmandu, the report has cited the lack of proactive victim identification a persistent serious problem despite the establishment of Central Crime Investigation Bureau’s special unit to investigate trafficking.
NUWAKOT , JUL 06 – The District Police Office, Nuwakot, arrested Kale Tamang of Ghyangphedi VDC-7 in Nuwakot district, who was accused of smuggling more than 400 women and children at brothels in India.
According to Lal Bahdur Tamang of Shikharbesi, Tamang smuggled more than 400 women and children during 15 years period and police had been searching Tamang for three years.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bal Krishna Thapa said Tamang accepted that he smuggled only seven women.
The recent statement by the Human Resource Development Minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal, expressing concern over the process of wider consultation in the drafting of the anti-corruption law, the Lokpal Bill, calls for reflection and debate. The Minister has said that the government would not in the future consider involving the civil society for drafting legislations. The Minister’s view against a wider consultative process also found support within the Congress Working Committee (CWC). The CWC in a meeting held on 24 July has said that the government felt as if it was held at ransom by a section of the civil society in the country concerning the Lokpal Bill. Not surprisingly other political parties in the country also hold a similar view on the issue
No where in the world can one find an incumbent home minister pleading humiliatingly before the prime minister to allow his party activist face the legal prosecution, once circumstantial evidence proves the guilt.
By Hira Thapa
Nepal is perhaps one of the very few countries in the world where politicians have been enjoying privilege of impunity from prosecution for years. The plain truth is that only one politician, a former minister belonging to one of the major political parties, has so far been given jail sentence on charges of corruption. This may also sound incredible in a collapsing state where one after another scandal rocks the nation and hardly any influential person faces legal prosecution to be brought to book.
KATHMANDU: Nepal has continued to improve efforts to combat human trafficking despite limited resources, the 11th Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released in Washington on Monday said, pointing out that the government is yet to fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
Recommendations contained in the TIP Report aimed at improving Nepal’s anti-trafficking efforts include increased law enforcement efforts against all types of trafficking, including labour trafficking, and against government officials who are found to be complicit in trafficking; the establishment of a formal procedure to identify victims of trafficking and refer them to protection services; and the promotion of legal awareness programmes to potential trafficking victims and government officials, said the US Embassy in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
The Eighth session of the Ninth Parliament which commenced on 25th January 2011 and continued for 33 days concluded on 24th March 2011. On 15th March 2011 after a long gap, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party, joined in…
Shakhawat Liton
* General elections under elected govt
* Polls to elect a new parliament during last 90 days of current JS
* No change in state religion
Parliament is set to pass the 15th constitutional amendment bill today making a series of changes, including repeal of the provision for holding national elections under a non-partisan caretaker government amid stiff protests from the BNP-led opposition.
The traditional threats and discrimination faced by members of the minority and vulnerable communities in Pakistan have steadily aggravated in the last few years in conjunction with militancy, growing intolerance and the occupation of Pakistan by violent extremists. That has left these…