Kathmandu, March 17 -- Except for some departmental actions against perpetrators, the government has not implemented a single recommendation for compensation or legal action by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the past four years.

Successive governments have consistently ignored legal provisions and shown reluctance to abide by the recommendations from the constitutional human rights watchdog. Things have only worsened of late.

As per the commission's records, it has made 444 recommendations for interim relief, compensation, departmental actions against perpetrators and criminal prosecutions since the current team of office bearers took the commission's command. Led by Chief Commissioner Top Bahadur Magar, the five-member ...