24 August 2016, Kathmandu
The civil society organizations working in the field of Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) are all set to forma national network in order to enhance efforts in ensuring enjoyment of ESCR rights for all. Justice and Rights Institute (JuRI Nepal) recently concluded an interaction with the members of human rights fraternity and participants strongly felt a gap of a national network dedicated to promotion and all agreed on to proceed further.
JuRI Nepal as discussed will soon share a draft paper bringing to light on the rationale and modality of the network and suggestions from the wider ESCR community will be solicited. Representatives from ...
21 July, 2016, Kathmandu
JuRI-Nepal published the maiden issue of the ESCR e- bulletin in Nepali. It features issues related to events and agenda with respect to promotion and protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Nepal. JuRIin partnership with IM Swedish Development Partner under the Promoting Human Dignity Project (PHDP) regularly organizes ESCR dialogue series with the key stakeholders and highlight issues through various communication channels, including e-bulletin.
20 June 2016, Kathmandu!
JuRI-Nepal signed an agreement with UNICEF for a project, “Support for Gender Based Violence Prevention and Child Protection Project”. As agreed on, this project will last on 12 June 2017. It was designed to facilitate implementation of UNICEF’s technical assistance to the Government agenciesand community groups engaged in protection of women and children from violence and abuse, including Gender Based Violence (GBV).
It offers necessary technical assistance to the Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare, Department of Women and Children and Central Child Welfare Board undertaking mapping analysis and drafting strategies for GBV preven...
JuRI-Nepal in partnership with Sancharika Samuha and IHRICON comes up with a new publication – Laigik hinsa piditko nyayma pahuch (Access to justice for the victims of gender based violence). It is a resource manual published in Nepali for the campaigners who are fighting against sexual and gender-based violence. It was formally released by Honorable Prakash Osti, Acting Chair of the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal as well as former Supreme Court justice in an event organized in Kathmandu. This resource manual among others covers the current legislation against gender based violence, investigation procedure, national and international mechanisms fighting against violence and disc...
Kathmandu, 26 May, 2016
JuRI Nepal has entered into an agreement with the IM Swedish Development Partner – a Swedish NGO headquartered in Lund, Sweden. It aims at building the capacity of IM’s local partners, including accelerating advocacy at the local and national level towards strengthening protection of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) of the marginalized communities. It effects from 25th of May 2016.
A two and half year pilot project ‘Promoting Human Dignity Project’ (PHDP) focuses on economic empowerment and girls' education in the marginalized communities. It is expected that the partnership will strongly contribute in implementation of JuRI-Nepal’s Stra...
