Kathmandu/Brussels, 19 February 2009: Despite successful elections and a lasting military ceasefire, Nepal’s peace process is facing its most severe tests yet. Nepal’s Faltering Peace Process,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the fragile state of Nepal’s peace process. Ten months after the elections, the constitution-writing process
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Nepal Update and Peace Corps Possibilities
By Shivaji Uphadaya On Constitution Assembly Elections and Results: The overall success of the Constitutional Assembly Elections held on the 10th of April 2008 was a break through towards the opening of a new Nepal. More than 60 percent voters’ turn out demonstrated their fearless participation and extreme desire to
Update from RPCV In Nepal
Tansen, April 11 Hello, Nepal IV and friends from the front lines. We’re in the calm of the eye of the hurricane right now. The violence and disorder of the past months (or years, depending on how you count) wound down exceedingly quickly in the past several days as closures
ICG Report – Nepal’s Election and Beyond
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORT Kathmandu/Brussels, 2 April 2008: Elections for Nepal’s Constituent Assembly on 10 April could be marred by political violence, but if all parties cooperate, it will open the next stage in the peace process. Nepal’s Election and Beyond,* the latest report from the International Crisis
Peace Corps Doctor Jailed
From Today’s Nepali Times  The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar,
Direct palace rule has failed in every regard: US
The government of the United States has said King Gyanendra’s decision fourteen months ago to impose direct palace rule in Nepal has failed in every regard. In a statement issued on Monday, spokesman of the US Department of State, Seam Mc Cormack, said, “The demonstrations, deaths, arrests, and Maoist attacks
US could restore arms supplies to Nepal
In a move that is likely to make India angry, the US is moving quickly to restore military supplies to the Himalayan kingdom, a news report said on Wednesday. The Daily News and Analysis (www.dnaindia.com)– an Indian news portal – quoted unnamed government sources of India as saying that the
February 1, 2006 King’s Proclamation to the Nation
Beloved Countrymen, It is now a year since the decision was taken to restore law and order and activate the multiparty democratic polity in the country in keeping with the nation’s needs and the people’s aspirations. Arresting a situation that was slipping into anarchy and reactivating a stalled democratic process
Crises Group Report- Nepal: Electing Chaos
31 January 2006Â Nepal risks political collapse and increased human suffering unless the royal government calls off municipal elections and cooperates in a broad-based peace process. full report: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3921