Critical Analysis of Civil Society Organisations’ Perspectives on the Contemporary Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Nepal

This study examines civil society organisations’ perspectives on the contemporary human rights situation of Indigenous Peoples (IP) in Nepal. It confirms they continue to be subject to violations of all three generations of human rights laws – including discrimination, denial of land rights, inadequate social welfare provision, exclusion from decision-making, violence and suppression of indigenous languages. The violations are systemic. This points to the urgent need for strengthened civil society activism to secure IP rights. Time is not on the side of the smaller IP communities. Their survival is in question if remedial action is not forthcoming soon.