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Rights watchdog grapples with internal feud yet again

by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 7, 2023Disputes among the commissioners within the National Human Rights Commission are not uncommon. In 2010-11, then commissioners Leela Pathak and KB Rokaya had a nasty feud that hampered the performance of the constitutional body. Although it didn’t come to the public’s attention, there were serious differences among the office bearers in the previous team led by Anup Raj Sharma. On some occasions Sharma had criticised the…

Sudurpaschim grapples with rising cases of missing persons

by DR Pant in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 30, 2023Prabin Mahara still remembers the last thing his wife Ganga told him before she went missing some five years ago. “She told me to not leave our daughter alone until she gets back,” Prabin recalls. “But she never came back.” Mahara, who is 29 and lives at Gauriganga Municipality’s ward 3 in Kailali, says his wife’s disappearance left him and their daughter, now eight years old,…