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. 24

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