8 Area: 30,211 sq.km. 8 Population: 15,70,584 8 Literacy Rate: 58.49 8 District: 10 8 Electoral Constituency (Parliamentary): 12 8 Electoral Constituency (Provincial): 24 8 Municipality: 25 8 Rural Municipality: 54 8 Total Ward No.: 718 Nepal Human Rights Year Book 2020 271 arnali Province has an- Human Rights Situation in 2019 Kticipated to increase per In this province, 486 people capita income to 2100 USD within were victims of human rights viola- next five years in its Plans and Pro- tion and abuses. During this period grams. It has also planned to be self- 53 people were victims of threat and sufficing in dairy and meat products beatings, 18 of caste-based-discrimi- within three years, and food, fruits nation, four of inhumane behaviour, an eggs within five years. Province 250 of women rights violation, one of has planned to reach each home of ESC rights, 65 in child rights viola- marginalized people of Karnali with tion and 10 women and 21 men were the slogan, ‘Karnali Government in killed, four victims on torture were People’s House, conservation of Op- documented by INSEC. pressed’. Further, there is also plan to launch ‘one home one employment’ programme. The Province has imple- mented daughter insurance policy. No. of Victims by Incident (In 2019) By State By Others 272 Human Rights Situation of Karnali Province in 2019 6.1 Dolpa Total Population 36,700 Women 18,462 No. of Constituency (HoR) 1 No. of Constituency (PA) 2 Phoksundo National Park, Pramod Ku- Below Poverty Level 15,455 mar Yadav (42) was beaten by Devendra GC (35), Mani Krishna Pandey (25), Hari Rawal (36), Dilli Sunar (38), Maheshwor No. of Migrant Workers 447 Rawal (42), Khagendra Bhandari (25) ,Prakash Buda (22). They too worked in the national park. Complaint was filed at Population by Disability 7,458 the District Administration Office (DAO) and they were arrested from the national park. 23 June 2019. He was beaten for not Literacy above 5 yrs (%) 54.15 allowing them to deposit the collected tax amount of Rs. 7,000,000 at the bank since they were drunk. A case was filed against Dependent Population 21,035 them on charge of Public Offense and they were released on a bail of Rs. 2,000 each. here were 20 victims of Human TRights violations and abuses ARREST were documented in Dopla District. The There was one arrest this year. violations included violence against wom- Bharat Pahadi of Kohalpur Municipality- en and children, and an arrest of a sup- 7 was arrested at Shuligard on 7 January porter of the Communist Party of Nepal. 2019. The Youth In-charge of the banned There was one reported case of rape and Communist Party of Nepal and was ar- one of sexual abuse of minors. Among rested while collecting donations and Women Rights violations, there was one threatening those that did not comply. rape attempt and six victims of domes- He was released after he signed an agree- tic violence. There were seven victims of ment to dissociate himself from the party caste-based discrimination. at the District Administration office on 11 January. THREAT/ BEATING Conservation Officer of the Shey Nepal Human Rights Year Book 2020 273 By State By Others ment and education up to the secondary level. The government will deposit Rs. Type of Events 1,000 on first month of their birth and Rs. 500 thereafter until they are 20 years’ Male Total Female Male Total age. For eligibility, parents must assure Arrest 1 1 the government that their daughters will Beatings 3 3 not be married before reaching 20 years, Racial Discrimination 2 5 7 and that they would not discriminate be- Rape 1 1 tween boys and girls. This has promoted Child Sexual Abuse 1 1 girls education. Rights Total 2 2 There was one victim of rape and one of sexual abuse as documented by IN- Domestic Violence 6 6 Women SEC. A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Rape Attempt 1 1 Rights charge of raping a six-year-old girl on 19 Total 7 7 February 2019. The District Court sen- Grand Total 1 1 11 8 19 tenced the boy to the juvenile rehabilita- tion center in Nepalgung. JAIL AND DETENTION The category D District jail has a ALL KINDS OF DISCRIMINATION capacity of accommodating 25 inmates. It AGAINST WOMEN had 33 residents, 20 convicts and 13 un- Rape, Rape Attempt and Sexual Abuse der detainees. The infrastructure was old This year two complaints were and crumbling and both reading and rec- filed at the Women, Children and Senior reational materials were lacking. The jail Citizen Service Center against domestic is to have a new building after June 2020. violence. Both the incidences were re- solved in front of the Ward Chairperson. RIGHT TO PROMPT AND FAIR TRIAL This year, there was one victims of District Court rape attempt and six of domestic violence The District Court has one judge. as documented by INSEC. It had registered 16 criminal cases (14 decided) and 14 civil cases (4 decided) in Domestic Violence 2019. No case is pending at the court for Kyangju Gurung (28) of Chharka over two years. Tang Song-4 was beaten by her husband Phurba Gurung (35) on 2 June 2019. This CHILD RIGHTS beating also broke her hand. She filed a Educational Status case against her husband who was later A total of 4,680 boys and 6,235 arrested. The case was resolved after the girls were enrolled in 2019. The district husband signed a commitment of not do- schools do not have facilities for children ing the same again at the District Police with disabilities. The district is remote Office. and mountainous, and often free-text books for children up to grade 8 are not ALL KINDS OF RACIAL available locally. About 2,000 children of DISCRIMINATION Dolpa are estimated to be out of school. There were six cases of discrimi- The Karnali Province government nation in the district of which five were has initiated a campaign of to open bank reconciled and no action was initiated on accounts for girls to support their enrol- one. 274 Human Rights Situation of Karnali Province in 2019 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND Right to Food CULTURAL RIGHTS The two rural municipalities of Damage to Property Dolpa faced food shortages in 2019. Mud- Ward offices of 1, 2 and 3 number kechula and Shey Phoksundo rural mu- of Mudkechula Rural Municipality were nicipality face food shortages every year. destroyed by the bomb blast by activists The shortages were caused by the re- of the banned Communist Party of Nepal moteness of the district and the damaged on 8 September 2019. All the documents bridge over the Kanshila River. at the offices were damaged by fire. Similarly, the Nepal Army defused another explosive placed at the entrance of the Thuli Bheri Municipality -7 on 14 September 2019. Number of Incident with Status of Legal Proceeding in 2019 CHILD RIGHTS Type of Events Closed Case Legal Proceeding Total Rape 1 1 Sexual Abuse 1 1 Total 1 1 2 WOMEN RIGHTS Type of Events Compromise Investigation Legal Proceeding Total Domestic Violence 4 1 1 6 Rape Attempt 1 1 Total 5 1 1 7 Nepal Human Rights Year Book 2020 275 6.2 Mugu Total Population 55,286 Women 27,261 No. of Constituency (HoR) 1 No. of Constituency (PA) 2 Below Poverty Level 25,784 from Mugu. Among them, two were re- leased after the district court’s order, and the other four were released on bail by the No. of Migrant Workers 699 District Administration Office whereas the remaining two were sent to detention for further investigation. Population by Disability 1,917 District Member of banned Com- munist party of Nepal, Raj Bahadur Bham (Uday), (36) of Soru Rural Munici- Literacy above 5 yrs (%) 51.25 pality- 6 was arrested on 24 April 2019 by the police with the accusaton of illegal collection of donations. By the order of Dependent Population 35,401 the court, he was kept in detention since 22 May 2019. By the end of this year, no decision has been made by the court in his year, INSEC documented this case. T26 victims of Human Rights violations and abuses. There were two JAIL AND DETAINEES vicitms of Child Rights Violation- one Category ‘D’ District Jail has the child marriage, one sexual abuse and six capacity of 15 prisoners. Due to delays victims of Women Rights violation- one in construction of the prison building in rape, three domestic violence, two sexual Mugu, the prisoners and detainees are abuse. From the state’s side, one woman needed to be sent to jails of Jumla, Sur- died due to lack of pre and post partum khet, Dailekh, Banke, and Dang. As the service. jail doesn’t have its own building it oper- ates in the CDO office and due to lack of ARREST accommodation of the prisoners they are This year police arrested eight cad- sent to other districts at an expense on 40 res of banned Communist Party of Nepal thousand to one lac rupees. 276 Human Rights Situation of Karnali Province in 2019 RIGHT TO PROMPT AND FAIR TRIAL By State By Others District Court In 2019, 28 civil cases were regis- Type of Events tered among which 14 have got the deci- Female Male Total Female Male Total sion and 14 are yet to get. Similarly in a Arrest 8 8 criminal case, 8 out of 11 cases have got Beatings 2 4 6 jhudgements and three are yet to get de- cided.