Part Seven STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES P romotion and protection are two key statutory tasks of National Human Rights Commission. The most important statutory task of the Commission concerning the protection of human rights is to conduct inquiries or investigations on complaints received from the victims or any person on his/her behalf, or upon information received from any source, and ensure that the victim(s) get(s) the justice. In this regard, the Commission will always receive and act upon individual complaints or take initiative on reports of human rights violation to protect human rights in Nepal as its priority statutory function. In case of the latter type of violations requiring suo moto action of the Commission, the priority will be given to the cases that fall under the areas covered by the strategic objectives. For the next five years starting from January 2004, the Commission will strive to achieve the following 8 strategic goals, grouped in programme and management categories, while executing the above stated statutory duty. A. Programme Objectives: The Commission has set the following seven programme objectives on the basis of the stakeholders’ recommendations and its own experience on priority human rights issues in Nepal and its statutory responsibilities, as stipulated in the Human Rights Commission Act. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1 To contribute to the peace building process by ensuring that the parties to the conflict are fully in compliance with the international standards for human rights and humanitarian law. Key priorities will be: - Monitoring, backed by improved outreach, and ensuring that the parties in conflict respect human rights. - Studying, investigating and documenting disappearances, human rights violations, internal displacement and following up. - Drawing attention to discuss and agree to resolve Expected Results of SO 1. His Majesty’s Government and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) agreed to respect human rights with an appropriate mechanism. 2. Respect for human rights and humanitarian principles established. 3. Adherence to the human rights principles by the His Majesty’s Government and the Maoists in the process of finding peaceful and lasting solution to the conflict. 4. Conflict victims received justice. 5. HMG plans and implements resettlement of the displaced people. 23