A Human Rights Organisation within the Nepalese Army

"Today the practice of zero tolerance of human rights violations has led to the enhancement of the image of the Nepalese Army".

It is encouraging that the Nepalese army officially takes the human rights violations seriously even though I do know that in practice this is not always endorsed. And while we can talk about reasons for that it might be interesting to look at the background to the Human Right Cells that exists today,under what circumstances it was founded and how it is talked about:

"The Nepalese Army has issued and implemented various directives, instructions and policies on International Human Rights Laws (IHRL) and Internatinal Humaniterian Laws (IHL) as well as national directives" and These directives clearly instruct the Nepalese Army to respect and support the protection and promotion of IHRL and IHL and judicial proceedings during all operations. Besides, the Nepalese Army has integrated the teaching of IHRL and IHL into all Army career courses. The Nepalese Army has issued various booklets and cards like the Soldier's Card, ROE Card, Human Rights booklet and Human Rights Year Book for the protection and promotion of IHRL and IHL in the organization. The Nepalese Army has taken punitive measures against those found guilty of violations of human rights and humanitarian laws.

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