Nepalis in Sri Lanka show solidarity with VAW protests
While protests against violence meted out to women are spreading across the country, Nepalis living in Sri Lanka have submitted a memorandum to the Nepali Embassy in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo urging the government to provide justice to the victims of violence against women.
In the petition, they have said they are alarmed by “the increasing incidents of violence against women and children in Nepal and the government’s inability to carry out its responsibility to enforce law even though the perpetrators are roaming freely.”
They have demanded that departmental and criminal proceedings against all civil servants involved in looting and raping of Sita Rai be initiated at the earliest.
“The Home Ministry must provide updates to the Women’s Commission within 48 hours on the status of investigations in all open cases of violence against women, specifically on the cases of Sita Rai, Chhori Maiya Maharjan and Saraswoti Subedi,” read the petition.
They have also expressed their solidarity with the civil society’s peaceful sit-in outside the Prime Minister’s residence at Baluwatar demanding stern action in the recent cases of violence against women and rule of law.
The protest, which was triggered by Rai’s case, has turned into a public movement against all kinds of discriminatory and gender-based violence.
Cases of Chhori Maiya Maharjan and Saraswoti Subedi are also being taken up in the protest. While Maharjan has been missing since February, Subedi was found dead two weeks ago at her workplace.
Published on: 10 January 2013 | The Kathmandu Post
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