Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights)
Address: Inar, Pulchok, Lalitpur, GPO Box 4690, Kathmandu,, NapalTel: 977-01-5555111
@himrights
Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to defending the rights of poor, marginalized and socially excluded communities and individuals, with special focus on women, children and youth.
Experience, Background and Services:
Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to defending the rights of poor, marginalized and socially excluded communities and individuals, with special focus on women, children and youth. HimRights works in affiliation with all major human rights institutions based in Nepal and abroad to monitor, report, document and respond to human rights violation.
HimRights informally formed in the mid 1980s and was officially registered in 1999 . The current HimRights team consists of seven board members, including lawyers, teachers, journalists, anthropologists, conflict and development specialists, social workers and human rights activist. Together they bring decades of individual and collective professional experience to HimRights lending to strong organizational credential in the areas of human rights, trafficking, good governance, conflict mitigation and peace building.
population focus Minorities (indigenous Janajati and Dalit) uprooted, displaced, and specially-abled who are marginalized with special focus on women, children and youth, who transcend all categories.
Strategic Direction:-
To monitor and document rights, peace, justice and development findings to better advocate and lobby for structural and policy changes to align with human rights instruments.
To coordinate observation, monitoring, training and research on all human rights conventions, to establish and strengthen national and regional mechanisms and linkages for enhanced realizations of human rights, rescue and support.
To advocate against human trafficking at community, national and international levels, to reduce the incidence of human trafficking within and outside of Nepal.
To uphold the right of self-determination and respect for diverse and marginalized groups to ensure they are allowed to live dignified lives.
To protect uprooted and displaced persons right to migrate as well as return to their place of origin discourage their discrimination
To protect live and facilitate mediation between conflicting parties for enhanced conflict transformation and sustained peace building at local and national levels.
Working Approaches:-
HimRights pursue a three fold approach of:
Monitoring and reporting human rights violation
Responding to these violations advocating, and training for policy change influence, raised awareness and improved capacity of bodies to cope with and respond to changing human rights dynamics in Nepal.
HimRights promotes participation, inclusion and equity through right based conflict sensitive and good governance principles.
- Advocacy
- Crisis Services
- Victim Outreach
- Survivor Leadership
- Training
- Campaigns & Awareness
Description:
Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to defending the rights of poor, marginalized and socially excluded communities and individuals, with special focus on women, children and youth.
Experience, Background and Services:
Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to defending the rights of poor, marginalized and socially excluded communities and individuals, with special focus on women, children and youth. HimRights works in affiliation with all major human rights institutions based in Nepal and abroad to monitor, report, document and respond to human rights violation.
HimRights informally formed in the mid 1980s and was officially registered in 1999 . The current HimRights team consists of seven board members, including lawyers, teachers, journalists, anthropologists, conflict and development specialists, social workers and human rights activist. Together they bring decades of individual and collective professional experience to HimRights lending to strong organizational credential in the areas of human rights, trafficking, good governance, conflict mitigation and peace building.
population focus Minorities (indigenous Janajati and Dalit) uprooted, displaced, and specially-abled who are marginalized with special focus on women, children and youth, who transcend all categories.
Strategic Direction:-
To monitor and document rights, peace, justice and development findings to better advocate and lobby for structural and policy changes to align with human rights instruments.
To coordinate observation, monitoring, training and research on all human rights conventions, to establish and strengthen national and regional mechanisms and linkages for enhanced realizations of human rights, rescue and support.
To advocate against human trafficking at community, national and international levels, to reduce the incidence of human trafficking within and outside of Nepal.
To uphold the right of self-determination and respect for diverse and marginalized groups to ensure they are allowed to live dignified lives.
To protect uprooted and displaced persons right to migrate as well as return to their place of origin discourage their discrimination
To protect live and facilitate mediation between conflicting parties for enhanced conflict transformation and sustained peace building at local and national levels.
Working Approaches:-
HimRights pursue a three fold approach of:
Monitoring and reporting human rights violation
Responding to these violations advocating, and training for policy change influence, raised awareness and improved capacity of bodies to cope with and respond to changing human rights dynamics in Nepal.
HimRights promotes participation, inclusion and equity through right based conflict sensitive and good governance principles.
