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The Draft Code is being enacted to replace the Muluki Ain. It does not however disclose why the change or overhauling of the Muluki Ain was needed. The Draft Code regulates the acts which were earlier regulated by Muluki Ain and does not have any radical…
Read More: Offence against State and Offence against Public Tranquility in the Draft Penal Code »Dr Bipin Adhikari Everyone is aware that women have been denied justice and have had to bear added injustice due to certain trends and behaviors that are in common practice aimed at women solely due to the fact that they are women. Equality between men and…
Read More: Offences relating to marriage and abortion in Draft Civil Code 2068 »Dr Bipin Adhikari After internationally committing to end all types of discrimination against women, Nepal must try to maintain gender justice from all angles in its state administration. For this it is important to analyze all policies, laws, and regulatory…
Read More: Offences regarding Marriage and Abortion in the Draft Penal Code, 2063 »Dr Bipin Adhikari The provisions regarding debtor-creditor relationship is scattered all over Muluki Ain. There is no specific chapter in the Muluki Ain which deals with relationship between creditor and debtor. The present Bill keeping that in mind has made…
Read More: Provisions regarding Debtor-Creditor Relationship in the Draft Civil Code Bill, 206 »Dr Bipin Adhikari Historically, Nepalese community always had a notion of adopting their relative's son/daughter if they were childless although adopting a child out of their community or relatives was an inconceivable notion. This notion can be closely…
Read More: Adoption by foreign nationals in the Draft Civil Code Bill, 2063 »Dr Bipin Adhikari Adoption can be defined as the process whereby people (usually without kids) assume the parenting responsibility of another's children. In doing so, they permanently transfer all the parenting rights and responsibilities from their…
Read More: Comments on Adoption provision in the Draft Civil Code Bill, 2063 »Dr Bipin Adhikari There is nothing to disagree with Professor He Baogang's presentation on hybrid federalism in Asia. I believe that what has worked is a system that deals with the local context, and does not just imitate what are described as the fine…
Read More: Approach on Federalization »Dr Bipin Adhikari Local governance is a set of institutions, mechanisms and processes through which citizens can express their interests and needs, mediate differences, and exercise their rights and obligations at local levels. Local governance includes not…
Read More: Local Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2071 »Dr Bipin Adhikari Witchcraft is defined on the basis of the act of witches by Evans-Pritchard (1937) as “A witch performs no rite, utters no spell, and possesses no medicines. An act of witchcraft is a psychic act”. He also described that witches do not know…
Read More: Witchcraft (Criminalization and Punishment) Bill »Dr Bipin Adhikari After 11 years of armed movement a consensus was reached between the parties to initiate peace process in the year 2006. During the course of peace process determining the status of disappeared persons during the conflict period and…
Read More: Ordinance on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2069 »Dr Bipin Adhikari As per the General Recommendation No. 19 of the CEDAW Committee: " Sexual harassment includes such unwelcome sexually determined behaviour as physical contact and advance sexually coloured remarks showing pornography and sexual demands…
Read More: Sexual Harassment Bill 2070 »Dr Bipin Adhikari The hotly debated Contempt of Court Bill has been recently sent to the parliament for referral. It has generated a lot of opinions with politicians, rights activists and others highly critical of the proposed provisions of the bill. The…
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