Acknowledgments The Advisory Council of Jurists thanks its President, Mr Daman Nath Dhungana, for his skilful chairmanship of the Advisory Council at its meeting. The Advisory Council would like to express its sincere gratitude to Ms Jessica Wyndham for the excellent background paper she has provided to the Council for its consideration. The Advisory Council also records its appreciation to Justice Susan Glazebrook and her law clerk, Ms Karen Grau, for preparing a working draft of the Report for consideration by the Advisory Council and for their work in helping to finalise the Report after the meeting The Council was greatly aided at the meeting in its deliberations and analysis by Mr Jonathon Hunyor of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Mr Hari Phuyal of the National Human Rights Commission, Nepal and Mr Robert Hesketh of the New Zealand Office of Human Rights Proceedings. The Council would like particularly to acknowledge Mr Hunyor’s role in acting as scribe during the meeting. The Council also wishes to acknowledge the able and expert assistance of the Secretariat and in particular Mr Stephen Clark and Mr Naresh Perinpanayagam without whose untiring efforts this Report would not have been completed. The Council is grateful to the British Council for the financial support it provided for the preparation of the background paper and to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the financial support it provided to the meeting. 7