Kathmandu. On the 31^st anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations in 1989, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a statement extending best wishes to all children and has urged all to appreciate, protect and promote the rights of children.

The children of remote regions were devoid of their right to equal access to education as they could not receive alternative education amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. NHRC has drawn attention towards this situation and asked all concerned to work towards the solution.

Nepal has ratified the convention and has arranged in the constitution and prepared acts and laws for the effective implementation of the commitments it has made in international forums. However, according to the NHRC report, the commitments, legal provisions, court verdicts and the recommendations of the NHRC have not been properly implemented and nutrition, education, health and basic rights are beyond the reach of many children. “Many also suffer from problems like child marriage, child labor and become victims of violence of different sorts. Studies of the commission point terror and fear of social rejection as the major factors denying justice to the children who are victims of rape and sexual violence,” the report reads.

NHRC has suggested Nepal government and all concerned to work for the effective execution of the constitutional and legal provisions, court verdicts and the recommendations of the NHRC to end the existing social evils against the children.