Kathmandu, July 18 -- Even though Nepal has amended its transitional justice Act since the last United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2021, insurgency victims and civil society organisations say the government has failed to set up an independent mechanism to address conflict-era crimes and human rights violations.

Submitting a shadow report to the Human Rights Council, the inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations, a coalition of 47 victims' and 26 civil society organisations have claimed that the legitimacy crisis in Nepal's transitional justice process continues to deepen even two decades after the peace process began.

Through the report, the c...