Human Rights Commission Urges Parliamentary Committee to Implement Gen-Z Protest Report

Kathmandu. The National Human Rights Commission has urged the parliamentary committee to take initiative for the implementation of the commission's investigation report on the human rights violations during the Gen-Z protest on Bhadra 23 and 24 last year.

Commission member Lily Thapa made this request to the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

She also questioned the role of the Law Committee in implementing the commission's recommendations regarding the human rights violations during the Gen-Z youth protest. She stated that incomplete and factually incorrect reports published by various bodies regarding the Gen-Z protest have tarnished Nepal's image in the international community.

Thapa expressed anger over the state's failure to implement the commission's repeated recommendations to provide compensation to victims of gender-based and sexual violence during the conflict period and to punish the perpetrators.

She said at the meeting, 'What is the status of the implementation of the commission's investigation report on the Gen-Z protest? The committee will clarify this in the future, as the mother of a Gen-Z martyr is here. Before that, reports from the BBC and many others, which did not reach the level of protest, tarnished the country's image in the international community. None of us could take a stand against it.'

Expressing objection to the state's neglect of the commission's recommendations, she added, 'What role will this committee play in implementing the Gen-Z protest report submitted by the commission? I want to question this committee. Another important thing is that we have recommended providing compensation to victims and punishing perpetrators of gender-based and sexual violence during the conflict. Is it not a violation of human rights by the state to keep these repeatedly made recommendations in the drawer like paper instead of implementing them?'

She raised a serious question as to whether human rights are being violated by the state itself by keeping the commission's recommendations in the drawer instead of implementing them.