Nepal is seeking yet another term on the Human Rights Council for the 2021-23 period, amid rising concerns over the country’s commitment to rights issues and criticism for failing to uphold its past promises, including those which it made before its election to the UN body for the 2018-20 period.

On Wednesday, while addressing the pledging session organised by Amnesty International and the International Service for Human Rights, Nepal’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Amrit Bahadur Rai, said that the Nepal government is committed to completing the transitional justice process based on victims’ concern respecting the directives delivered by the Supreme Court in 2015, international instruments that Nepal is a party to, the local reality and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Despite repeated promises at home and before the international community, Nepal has yet to investigate a single case of the transitional justice process, depriving thousands of conflict victims of justice even a decade and a half after the end of the fighting.

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