SURKHET, FEBRUARY 20

Although incidents of human rights violation have decreased in Karnali, the situation still remains grim.

Statistics of 2021 show that 430 incidents of human rights violation took place in a year in Karnali province.

According to Human Rights Year Book 2022 released by Informal Sector Service Centre Karnali Province in Birendranagar, Surkhet, yesterday, 320 women and 76 men were affected by incidents of human rights violation in the last year.

Similarly, there are 34 direct victims, including four women and 30 men, said INSEC Karnali Province Office Surkhet Coordinator Narayan Subedi. In 2020, 58 people, including seven women and 51 men, were direct victims of human rights abuses. In that year, a total of 426 people, including 332 women and 94 men were affected.

Likewise, in 2021, two people died in prisons, 34 people, including 20 women and 14 men were murdered, and 12 suffered due to intimidation. There were 115 victims in 205 incidents of violence against women, 80 cases of rape, 29 cases of attempted rape, and 29 cases of sexual abuse.

A version of this article appears in the print on February 21, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.