NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 5.1. National Relations National relations play an important role for the Commission to perform its tasks as specified by the law responsibly.The Commission has maintained its relation with His Majesty’s Government, various ministries, security agencies, human rights NGOs, civil society and senior citizens and intellectual class of the society by means of various interactions and cooperation. The information, advice and suggestions received from these groups can play a decisive role to perform the tasks of the Commission. Therefore, the Commission is also making an effort to maintain a balanced relation among various offices, organizations and intellectual groups in the country. The Commission has relations at various levels with the following bodies: a) Relations with His Majesty’s Government b) Relations with NGOs c) Relations with the political parties d) Relations with Parliament e) Relations with civil society 5.1.1. Relations with His Majesty’s Government His Majesty’s Government has repeatedly committed that it will cooperate with the Commission to discharge its functions and responsibility as provided by the law. The Government was very helpful in monitoring the human rights situation during the time of state of emergency. However, it has also been felt that expected and prompt response by various bodies of His Majesty’s Government have not come on issues such as making available the information as asked by the Commission regarding protection of human rights, sensitivity of the Government on questions pointed out by the Commission regarding humans rights and protection of fundamental rights. The state has been heavily criticized on the national and international level for its ineffective steps and sluggish response in improving the human rights situation in Nepal. However, it is a also a positive sign to launch a separate human rights cells to monitor human rights related activities inside offices under His Majesty’s Government such as Home Ministry, Armed Police Force, Royal Nepal Army and civil police, all under His Majesty’s Government. In order to quell the armed rebellion and maintain peace in the country, the government has promulgated Terrorist and Disruptive Activities, (Control and Punishment) Ordinance (TADO) according to which the civil police, Armed Police Force and Royal Nepal Army have been mobilized under a unified command. The number of cases reported to the Commission regarding disappearances, unjust killings and illegal detentions are on a rise. However, the Armed Police Force, civil police and various other bodies under His Majesty’s Government have not been cooperating well with the Commission. These government bodies are not responding efficiently to the Commission’s correspondence. Firstly, they do not send information that the Commission had asked for and even if they do send them, they send them incomplete and very late. Further, they completely disobey in executing the Commission’s recommendations and suggestions. All these problems are hindering the Commission to work much more effectively and properly. 58