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	<title>Nepali Times &#124; The Brief &#187; Human Rights</title>
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		<title>New passport troubles</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/07/new-passport-troubles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/07/new-passport-troubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bardiya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has ordered the government to halt the process of outsourcing the printing of machine readable passports, in the wake of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s statement that he was forced to award the contract to India to please the coalition parties. Republica writes:
Responding to a writ petition filed against the government´s decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army draws flak from OHCHR</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/26/army-draws-flak-from-ohchr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/26/army-draws-flak-from-ohchr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doctors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The High Level Political Mechanism held its first meeting after the demise of its coordinator Girija Prasad Koirala on Friday, but was pretty inconsequential since the three parties are still arguing about who should lead the mechanism.
Republica says the parties “agreed to appoint the new coordinator after holding broad discussions on the upcoming days.” We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/12/annals-of-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/12/annals-of-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[B Lynn Pascoe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The day 23 Tibetans exiles were handed over to the immigration authority for defying prohibitory orders and staging a protest against China, the United States released a damning report on China&#8217;s human rights record. Republica reports:
The United States criticized China´s &#8220;worsening&#8221; human rights record accusing the communist country of torturing Tibetan &#8220;repatriated from Nepal&#8221; as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up in arms</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/03/up-in-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/03/up-in-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamim Shah]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday’s Naya Patrika had a story about the police officer involved in Jamim Shah’s murder. We missed the news in The Brief yesterday, but would like to include it here because the reporter who wrote the story is getting death threats. From Naya Patrika:
Nepal Police officer Prakash Chhetri has said that he helped the killer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singh gets a promotion</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/25/singh-gets-a-promotion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/25/singh-gets-a-promotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cabinet promoted Nepal Army General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh to the position of Lieutenant General on Thursday. The prime minister made the decision on Christmas Eve hoping to draw minimum attention to the announcement. Kantipur reports:
According to the Ministry of Defence, the prime minister chose the date ‘strategically’. Most embassies are on a holiday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New week, old issues</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/13/new-week-old-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/13/new-week-old-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal seems to be cracking his whip. On Saturday he ordered Nepal Army to present Major Niranjan Basnet before Kavre District Court. Republica reports that Basnet, one of the four accused in the Maina Sunuwar case, was arrested upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport after his dismissal from a UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some harmony, a whole lot of tension</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/11/tension-in-the-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/11/tension-in-the-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We start this Friday with some heart-warming news from Parsa: Muslim residents of a village, who are  in the majority, are building a temple so that the minority Hindu residents can have a place to pray. Republica reports:
Muslims have initiated construction of a temple in Baluwa Tole in Mahadevpatti-2 where just 10 of the 115 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights ironies</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/09/human-rights-ironies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/09/human-rights-ironies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birendra police hospital]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated a human rights conference with a very fancy name &#8211; Human Rights National Magna Meet 2009 – on Tuesday, where more than 150 civil society organsations met to discuss human rights situation, peace process and civic security issues. Republica reports:
“Human rights will be limited to ideal if people’s right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brief on Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/24/the-brief-of-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/24/the-brief-of-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prosecution and promotion
The government has decided to prosecute former Chief of Army Staff Pyar Jung Thapa and several senior army officials facing charges of extra-judicial killings and human rights violations. A cabinet meeting decided to take legal action against the officials under the recommendation of National Human Rights Commission. Meanwhile, Republica reports that one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brief on Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/21/the-brief-of-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/21/the-brief-of-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Threat to quit 
Nepali Congress CA members asked their party to quit the government saying Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal likes to run a one-man show, ignoring their advice and interfering in their ministries. The current government does not look like a coalition, they said. They requested the party to leave the government if Nepal [...]]]></description>
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