Kathmandu, Feb 24: The stakeholders have urged the government that it implemented the recommendations various countries gave to Nepal on the universal periodic review (UPR) report.
The recommendations were furnished under the fourth cycle of UPR report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council.
At a programme organized jointly by the Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD) and the Centre for Reproductive Rights in the federal capital on Tuesday, advocate Roshana Pradhan informed that Nepal government had received recommendations relating to decriminalization of abortion, reproductive rights, respectful maternity care, broader education on sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights in its submission of UPR under the fourth cycle.
As the government had received significant recommendation on the reproductive health, the government must pay heed to its enforcement with proper actions, she stressed.
Another advocate at FWLD, Dipesh Shrestha, informed that France and Iceland had recommended Nepal that it decriminalized abortion.
Similarly, Iceland urged the access to safe abortion. Norway was also in line to suggest the access of gender minorities to safe abortion.
Effective implementation of National Strategy against Sex Selective Abortion, 2021 was another major recommendation of various countries.
Multi-sector coordination was imperative to curb child marriage. Other issues shared in the programme were strict implementation of law prohibiting Chhaupadi, child marriage and dowry system and prosecution of the criminals involved in these acts.
Another speaker Nabin Kumar Shrestha reminded that it was constitutional and international liability of the government to accept and implement the recommendations furnished to Nepal’s UPR fourth cycle.
