Enforced disappearances Nepal

Numbers and Context
UNWGEID Cases
531 disappearances have been denounced, from which 211 have been clarified and 320 remain outstanding.
NGOs Numbers
Over 1,000 people have disappeared in Nepal according to Human Rights Watch
Context
Enforced disappearances have been caused in the context of the 10 year civil war between Maoist insurgents and government security forces, which ended in 2006. The conflict broke out in February 1996, after leaders of the Maoist faction of the Communist Party of Nepal presented the government with a forty-point list of demands, including the call for a secular republican state and a constituent assembly to which the government failed to responde.

Federations and Organisations
Organisation	Advocacy Forum-Nepal (AF)
Website	www.advocacyforum.org
Contact	Baluwatar, Kathmandu. P.O. Box. 21798 Tel: +977-1-4430951, 4417397 Fax: 0977-1-4437440 e-mail: msharma(at)advocacyforum.org.np mandira2001np(at)yahoo.com (Mandira Sharma)
Focus	Human Rights in Nepal
Member of	Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)