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Publications and Reports - Nepal

This site contains documents prepared by FPP, information from our partners, and other materials of relevance to indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities and forests.

Documents are listed below, in date order. They can be downloaded free or printed copies can either be purchased online or ordered from: julia@forestpeoples.org.

All our publications are free to indigenous peoples' organisations.
Southern NGOs are entitled to a 50% discount.

Publication
Format
Request to UN Special Rapporteur for follow-up on Nepal's failure to comply with UN recommendations regarding the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the revision of Nepal's Constitution
(See CERD's communication to Nepal, below)
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples (SRIP)
By the Indigenous Peoples Mega Front, the Lawyers' Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP), and the Forest Peoples Programme
January 2010
pdf (0.4Mb)
Communication adopted by CERD under the early warning and urgent action procedures with respect to the rights of indigenous peoples to participate in the revision of Nepal's Constitution
(See July NGO submission to CERD, below)
Letter to Ambassador of Nepal from CERD
September 2009
pdf (0.1Mb)
Follow-up to CERD about new constitution
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concerning the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the process of drafting Nepal's new constitution.
Submitted by ten indigenous peoples organisations and FPP
July 2009
pdf (0.2Mb)

Request for the consideration of the situation of indigenous peoples in Nepal under the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)'s early warning and urgent action procedures
This request addresses Nepal's exclusion of indigenous peoples' representatives from the process of revising and adopting a new constitution.
Submission by 15 NGOs
February 2009

pdf (0.1Mb)
Nepal
Urgent communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples

It concerns the exclusion of indigenous peoples’ representatives from the process of making Nepal’s new constitution.
Submitted by the Lawyers’ Association for the Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples and the Forest Peoples Programme
April 2008
pdf (0.1Mb)
ADB faces boycott as it subverts environment, resettlement and indigenous
safeguard policies

Press Release by Peoples Forum Against ADB (PFAADB)
15 January 2008
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