Human rights situation in Madhes: Wide of complaints, slow action process
Janakpur. The state of human rights in Madhes Province is deplorable. Although hundreds of complaints have been registered, the situation of human rights has become deplorable due to the slow processing of the action process.
Buddha Narayan Sahni, joint secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Madhes Province, Janakpurdham, said that the problem is getting complicated day by day as the state is not serious about human rights. Stating that the situation of human rights in Madhes Province is sensitive, Sahni pointed out the need for all the three levels of government to be serious towards the protection, promotion and promotion of human rights. As he said, the human rights situation in the eight districts of Madhes is very challenging as per the statistics of the National Human Rights Commission, Madhes Province Office of the fiscal year 2082÷83. The number
and nature of the complaints related to human rights violations in Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Rautahat, Bara, Parsa, Siraha and Saptari pose a bigger challenge for the state bodies to protect the basic rights of the citizens, he said.
According to the report of the commission, 488 complaints are pending in the state office. Out of these, more than 110 complaints have been investigated and sent to the central office, but 376 complaints are still under consideration. Some of the complaints were missing during the conflict. The complaints are still in the process of being processed as they could not be settled.
Most of the current complaints are related to civil and political rights. Of the 376 complaints, 234 are related to the Convention on Civil and Political Rights. Similarly, 66 complaints are related to economic, social and cultural rights, 23 to torture, 23 to enforced disappearances, 15 to women’s rights, 10 to racial discrimination and five to child rights.
District-wise, Dhanusha has the highest number of complaints with 112.
After this, 54 complaints were registered in Siraha, 39 in Rautahat, 38 in Parsa, 37 in Mahottari, 34 in Sarlahi, 35 in Saptari and 27 in Bara. This shows that the problem is not limited to just one district but has spread to all eight districts of the province.
The incidents of 2051, 2054 and 2056 are still on record, while 33 complaints of 2060 BS are still in the process of being prosecuted, the commission said. This indicates that the process of getting justice in cases of human rights violations is long and complicated.
The monitoring of the commission has also shown another side of the situation. A total of 31 monitoring teams were mobilized in all the eight districts to monitor protests, elections, detention and jails, peaceful demonstrations, use of force, development works, religious-community tensions, child rights and workers’ rights. After the monitoring of the workers on charges of forced labor and torture in Saptari, the Indian workers were rescued and repatriated.
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