YAN Annual Report 2017 Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN) Anamnagar, Kathmandu Phone: +977-9849006100 Email:
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[email protected] Please Visit Us @ Website: www.yan.org.np & Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/Youth Advocacy Nepal 1 Message from the Chairperson First of all, I would like to express my pleasure on the publication of annual report encompassing activities, achievements, challenges and learning within of the year 2017 by Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN). I hope this process goes better in the coming days. In which context was YAN established? Why was it established? What are its working fields and values? I would like to express my views in order to clarify aforementioned questions. I along with Sanjay Khadka, Mina Majhakoti, Gita Chaudhari, Rama Bhattarai, Nisha Bhujel and Ganesh Dhami who are in the current executive committee, were actively involved as volunteers in Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP) for several years. We learned many things during our active volunteerism in COCAP. Due to long time volunteerism in the field of human rights, we were fascinated towards the realm of human rights, accountability and social justice. Though there are many human rights based organization in Nepal but youth working for the protection and promotion of human rights is not often. This strikes our mind and we committed to establish an innovative youth-led organization objectively focusing to protect, promote and ensure all human rights for all. We went through several talks and meetings, which led to the establishment of Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN). We have conducted pressurizing programs by organizing sit-in and rallies in order to put pressure to concerned authorities and stakeholders.