Kathmandu, November 17, 2024 – Amnesty International Nepal has launched its 2024 Write for Rights campaign, urging Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to prioritize independent investigations into custodial deaths and ensure justice for victims. The campaign highlights a pressing issue: the rising number of deaths in police custody, with many cases going uninvestigated. Write for Rights, Amnesty's annual global initiative brings attention to individuals and communities at risk of human rights violations. In Nepal, the campaign has focused on custodial deaths since 2020, emphasizing the need for accountability in such cases.

Kailali, Nov 26 – Suresh Bhool, Joint Secretary of the National Dalit Journalist Association (NDJA) in Kailali, has died following a brutal assault. Bhool, a resident of Gauriganga Municipality-11, Kantipur Tol, was attacked by a group from the same locality around 5 p.m. on November 10. The severely injured journalist was rushed to Nisarga Hospital in Dhangadhi, where he succumbed to his injuries on the morning of November 26. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), Kailali chapter, expressed its condolences to the bereaved family and called for justice in a public statement.

Browse corporate India's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) sections, and you’ll notice a glaring omission: “caste.” While terms like “gender,” “sexuality,” “physical ability,” and “race” dominate public-facing pages, caste—a system affecting hundreds of millions of Indians—barely gets a mention. Occasionally, it appears in downloadable documents such as codes of conduct, but it is often absent. “It’s not surprising—most Indian companies shy away from discussing caste,” says Christina Dhanuja, a DEI-caste strategist based in Chennai. Caste, an ancient social hierarchy rooted in Hinduism, remains a sensitive topic, as addressing it involves confronting the privileges of upper castes and the historical implications of the country’s dominant religion.