On February 21, 2003, the Commission, with a view to prepare an action plan for undertaking initiative in the ceasefire, decided to launch a interaction/discussion programme with civic society, political parties, security agencies and higher governmental authorities. On April 21, 2003, the members of the CPN (Maoist)'s talk team and the Commission's authorities held a discussion on the situation of human rights during the time of ceasefire. At the discussion, the Commission's authorities asked the Maoists to enter into a separate agreement with the government on the question of human rights which it approved and asked the Commission to prepare a model of this agreement. On April 29, 2003, a discussion was held between the talk team of the government and the Commission's authorities on addressing the problems of human rights. During the discussion, the Commission's authorities asked the government to enter into a separate agreement with the Maoists on the questions of human rights, which the Government side responded very positively. On May 6, 2003, a discussion was held between the facilitators of peace talk and the authorities of the Commission for addressing the questions of human rights while holding the peace talk. Similarly, the Commission informed them of its activity in preparing a model in this context. On May 19, 2003, the Commission met Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa and submitted him a draft of revised agreement requesting him to arrange for a separate agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Maoists on human rights. On June 20, 2003, the Commission, by publishing a communiqué, asked to create a system so that both the parties may pursue the accepted code of conduct without engaging in armed conflict as had been published in the news. 2.5.5 Declaration of Emergency and Human Rights The declaration of emergency led to suspend almost all the basic rights, to say in other words, constitutional rights of the people and resulted confusion in the sphere of human rights. Even at such a time, the Commission monitored the human rights situation at different districts by sending volunteers consisted of the Commission and civic society. On June 6, 2003, say, on the anniversary of the Commission, the report of this monitoring was made public with the title "Emergency and Human Rights". The report, while providing the information on human rights violation, had recommended various measures for stopping the human right violation. 16