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5.
The Committee notes the establishment of a number of human rights coordination and
monitoring mechanisms, such as the National Human Rights Commission, the National
Commission on Women and the National Dalit Commission, the Human Rights Protection
Committee and the National Coordination Committee, and the human rights cells in the Police,
the Armed Police Force and the Royal Nepalese Army.
6.
The Committee also welcomes the agreement entered into by the State party with the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on 11 April 2005, which led to
the establishment of an OHCHR Office in Nepal. The Committee welcomes the continued
cooperation of the State party with the OHCHR Office in Nepal.
7.
The Committee notes that the State party received visits from the following special
procedures of the Commission on Human Rights:
(a)
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in 1996;
(b)
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, in 2000;
(c)
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in 2004;
(d)
Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally
displaced persons, in 2005; and
(e)
Special Rapporteur on the question of torture in 2005.
8.
The Committee commends the generosity of the State party in hosting more
than 100,000 Bhutanese and 20,000 Tibetan refugees.
9.
The Committee further welcomes the signature by the State party, on 8 September 2000,
of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of
children in armed conflict.
C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Convention
10.
The Committee acknowledges the difficult situation of internal armed conflict faced by
the State party, and is alarmed by the high incidence of atrocities committed by the Communist
Party of Nepal (CPN) - Maoist. However, it points out that no exceptional circumstances
whatsoever may be invoked as a justification of torture.
11.
The Committee regrets the adverse impact of the absence of the Parliament since
May 2002 on the capacity of the State party to implement the Convention, and in particular in
respect of the enactment or amendment of legislation, as well as the ratification of international
conventions.