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NHRC in bid to blacklist rights violators

2017-08-27

Nepal

The National Human Rights Commission is preparing to blacklist people guilty of serious human rights violations for barring them from traveling abroad and enjoying state benefits. The commission is working on the procedure and guidelines as mandated by the Constitution of Nepal and the Human Rights Act-1997. Though the NHRC enjoyed the power to blacklist the culprits, it had failed to implement the provision in the lack of guidelines. Individuals found guilty of human rights violations by NHRC probe will have their names made public. Commission spokesperson Mohna Ansari said those blacklisted will be barred from travelling abroad and denied social security and other state benefits. “The blacklisting process will begin once the guidelines are approved,” Ansari told the Post. The human rights watchdog is preparing to use the tool at a time when the government seems reluctant to implement the commission’s recommendations. According to the NHRC, only 14 percent of its recommendations, most of them related to compensation for the victims, have been implemented. Between 2000 and 2013, the NHRC recommended 735 cases of rights violation for action but only 103 of them were fully implemented. Though the government is legally obliged to implement the recommendations, they go unaddressed when those named for action enjoy political patronage. The government only this year tabled the NHRC report in Parliament for discussion though this has to be done every year. The government had flouted the constitutional requirement by not tabling the report for deliberation, right since the rights watchdog was established in 2000. Successive governments in the past 16 years had been ignoring the clause that requires the prime minister to table the annual report after the NHRC submits it to the President. Article 294 of the constitution says the commission submits its annual report to the President, who forwards it to Parliament through the PM. The 118 recommendations made in the past three years have been incorporated in three reports tabled in Parliament. द्वन्द्वकालका मानवअधिकार उल्लंघनका गम्भीर घटनामा संलग्नलाई दण्डका लागि गरिएका सिफारिस कार्यान्वयन नभएपछि राष्ट्रिय मानवअधिकार आयोगले त्यस्ता व्यक्तिको नाम कालोसूचीमा राखेर सार्वजनिक गर्ने तयारी गरेको छ। सूचीमा राख्नुअघि विधि र प्रक्रिया तय गर्न अहिले आयोगमा छलफल चलिरहेको छ। आयोगले मानवअधिकार उल्लंघनमा संलग्नलाई कारबाहीका लागि गरेका करिब २ सय सिफारिस अलपत्र परेपछि आयोगले कठोर निर्णय लिन थालेको हो। विधि तय भएपछि आयोगले मानवअधिकार उल्लंघनकर्तासँगै सिफारिस कार्यान्वयन नगर्ने उच्चपदस्थ अधिकारीको नामसमेत सार्वजनिक गर्नेछ। आयोगमा ०५७ जेठदेखि परेका उजुरीमा कारबाही गर्न भएका सिफारिसअनुसार कानुनी कारबाही हुन सकेको छैन। आयोगको वर्तमान नेतृत्व आउनुअघि नै कारबाही गर्न ७ सय ३५ र त्यसपछि ८२ वटा सिफारिस भएका छन्। तीमध्ये मानवअधिकार उल्लंघनका गम्भीर घटनामा दण्ड सजाय व्यवस्थाका लागि गरिएका करिब २ सय सिफारिस पनि सरकारले कार्यान्वयन गरेको छैन। उल्लंघन गर्नेलाई सजायको साटो बढुवा र पुरस्कृत गर्न थालिएपछि आयोग ‘एक्सन' मा जाने रणनीतिमा पुगेको हो। आयोगका कानुन महाशाखा प्रमुख श्यामबाबु काफ्लेले संविधानको व्यवस्थाअनुरूप कालोसूचीमा राख्नुअघि ‘गाइडलाइन' को तयारीमा जुटेको बताए। ‘अहिले गाइडलाइन तयार पार्ने काम भइरहेको छ। त्यसपछि मात्र संविधानको धारा २४९ (ज) अनुरूप कारबाही प्रक्रियामा जाने हो।' नागरिकस्तरबाटै अनुमोदन गराएपछि ‘एक्सन' मा जान सहज हुने भएकाले कारबाहीअघि बृहत् राय लिने तयारी आयोगको छ। संविधानको धारा २४९ (ज) मा मानवअधिकार उल्लंघन सम्बन्धमा राष्ट्रिय मानवअधिकार आयोगका सिफारिस वा निर्देशन पालना वा कार्यान्वयन नगर्ने पदाधिकारी, व्यक्ति वा निकायको नाम कानुनबमोजिम सार्वजनिक गरी उल्लंघनकर्ताको अभिलेख राख्ने व्यवस्था छ।

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