6.2 Challenges
6.2.1 Consolidation of Commission and Capacity Development
Despite the provision of low budget, budget of Rs. 5.5 million merely, the Commission has
undertaken monitoring tasks at 10 districts. It had also informed the then Prime Minister
Lokendra Bahadur Chand of its expectation to extend this monitoring task up to 35 districts. In
the context of growing trend in assassination, violence and human rights violation, the
Commission had expected that His Majesty's Government would allocate necessary budget and
human resources for helping it to shoulder the growing workload but that did not happen. This
has created difficulty even to carry on day-to-day administrative works very smoothly and it
should be taken as a challenge.
6.2.2 Protection of Human Rights
In its own initiative, the Commission has been carrying on its task towards the protection of
human rights on the basis of news published in newspapers and complaints filed in the
Commission. However, the reluctance of the agencies and departments of His Majesty's
Government to respond properly to the letters sent by the Commission has created a challenge
in the task of protecting human rights.
6.2.3 Management of Conflict
Although the Commission has maintained that the conflict, which the country faces today,
should be managed in a peaceful manner, no cooperation was received by it from the state force,
non-state force and civic society. Hence, the Commission is facing a difficulty or challenge in
the protection of human rights by transforming the present conflict.
6.2.4 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The main cause of present day conflict should be taken as poverty, unemployment, social
discrimination, uneven distribution of resources and facilities. As a challenging task, the
Commission is taking initiative towards eliminating these causes by guaranteeing economic,
social and cultural rights of the people.
6.2.5 Forced Internal Displacement
The protection of human rights of thousands of people displaced by conflict has remained as a
grave challenge. His Majesty's Government, donor agencies, diverse non governmental agencies
and civic society have to cooperate and coordinate for creating a favourable environment
towards protecting the basic rights, management of rehabilitation, and safe return of these
displaced people.
6.2.6 Human Rights Education
With a view to develop a favourable environment towards creating human rights culture, the
Commission has been implementing diverse promotional activities in the sphere of human
rights education. However, the insufficient budget allocated to it has hampered it much in its
activities.
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