Kathmandu, Feb. 20 -- Women continue to suffer disproportionately from human rights violations in Nepal, according to an annual report released by the Informal Sector Service Centre, a human rights organisation.

Nepal Human Rights Year Report 2020 shows that around 80 percent of victims of human rights violations last year by both state and non-state actors were women. Cases of rights violations also jumped 23 percent in just a year, from 5,11o in 2018 to 6,642.

The organisation, known by the acronym INSEC, has been compiling cases of human rights violations across the country since 1992.

Its latest report shows that cases of women's rights violations, which numbered 2,824 in 2018, rose to 3,364 last year, with domestic violence accoun...