Kathmandu, Aug. 28 -- Despite repeated pledges, successive governments continue to show their indifference to implementing the National Human Rights Commission's recommendations, giving rise to the culture of impunity in the country.

Since its establishment in 2000, the constitutional rights watchdog has made 1,618 recommendations, including 145 for policy reforms. However, only 13.66 percent of them have been fully implemented while the share of partial implementation and non-implementation stands at 36.09 percent and 51.23 percent, respectively.

A majority of implemented cases are related to monetary compensation. Most of the recommendations for criminal investigation even in heinous crimes like extrajudicial killings have been left u...