Second Nepal Lawyers� Workshop on �Litigating Human Rights in a State of Emergency'

Dhulikhel, 27-29 September

 

PAPERS & MATERIALS

I. Papers

 

1. Rabindra Bhattrai, Advocate

�The Rights of Detainees�

 

2. Justice Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada, District Judge

�The Right to Life, Personal Liberty and Security under the Nepalese Constitution�

 

3. Professor Stephen Livingstone

'International Human Rights Law Instruments'

 

4. Professor Stephen Livingstone

'International Law relating to States of Emergency and Derogations from International Human Rights Law Treaties'

 

5. Hari Phuyal

�The Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law: an Appraisal of Nepalese Provisions and Experience�

 

6. Kedar Prasad Poudyal

�The Protection of Socio-economic Rights with Special Reference to the Right to Food, Right to Education and Right to Health�

 

7. Dr. Ram Krishna Timalsena

�Public Interest Litigation and the Protection of Human Rights in Nepal�

 

8. Hari Prasad Uprety

�Using Writs to Protect Human Rights�

 

II. Materials

 

9. INTERIGHTS� background paper on states of emergency

 

10. Status of Nepal�s ratifications of International Human Rights Treaties

 

11. Edited summary of Supreme Court of Nepal judgments