The National Dalit Commission (NDC), National Women Commission of Nepal (NWC) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) made such a plea after they received reports about such discrimination and violence during a joint mission in Siraha. [break]
The mission was informed that many incidents of caste-based discrimination and gender-based violence in Siraha are not taken to the authorities but are mediated locally, said a joint statement issued by the human rights bodies.
The statement further said that the rights bodies have also received reports of threats directed at some lawyers and human rights defenders when they seek to engage on those issues.
"We urge the government to act immediately to ensure access of the victims of these serious human rights violence to justice,” the statement read.
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