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		<title>Witch-hunts &#8211; Medieval barbarity continues to blight the landscape of New Nepal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[// // http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2009/12/31/INTERESTINGTIMES/16636 INTERESTING TIMES Witch-hunts Medieval barbarity continues to blight the landscape of New Nepal MALLIKA ARYAL FROM ISSUE #482 (25 DEC 2009 &#8211; 31 DEC 2009) KIRAN PANDAY In November Jug Chaudhary, a 30-year-old mother of four children, was beaten up by her family members and paraded naked around a village in Kailali. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=93&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting: The Marani Devi Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the witch-hunt, Marani Devi comes back fighting By Seema A Adhikari KATHMANDU, Feb 14: Marani Devi, 55, from the eastern plain district of Mahottari, who hit the headlines last year after being bludgeoned by locals who branded her a witch, wants to launch a nation-wide campaign against conservatism. Seven months ago, Marani Devi was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=90&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three commissions to work together in witchcraft case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Human Rights Commission, National Women Commission and National Dalit Commission have decided to work together on the issue of witchcraft abuse in Pyutar, Lalitpur. Representatives of the three commissions met at NHRC premises Monday afternoon to discuss the incident that occurred last week. The three commissions also discussed about taking action against the perpetrator [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=86&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witches in the 21st Century &#8211; Accusations, Persecutions &#8211; Women &amp; Girls UNHCR &#8211; UN Refugee Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witches in the 21st Century 24 August 2009 Throughout history, people described as witches have been persecuted, tortured and murdered and the practice continues today. Statistics are not easy to come by but it is known that every year, thousands of people, mostly older women and children are accused as witches, often abused, cast out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=85&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid violence, Indians get caught up in Nepal’s witch hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 23rd, 2009 &#8211; 4:19 pm ICT by IANS By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, April 23 (IANS) Dasharath Sawant, a 55-year-old soothsayer from India’s Maharashtra state, had hoped to visit the famed Pashupatinath shrine in Kathmandu with seven members of his family. On the way, the group had also planned to do a bit of business, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=84&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Witch Craft?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By:  Christopher Kimberley Saturday, 31 October 2009 Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network This blog has unintentionally become a news archive of human rights violations from around the world which are connected with what the media translate as &#8216;witchcraft&#8217;. This abuse of other human beings takes place everyday, appears to be increasing and is too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=82&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEPAL: Police fail to charge those who accused a Dalit woman of witchcraft and forced her to eat human excreta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-153-2009 http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2009/3312 13 November 2009 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; NEPAL: Police fail to charge those who accused a Dalit woman of witchcraft and forced her to eat human excreta ISSUES: Violence against women; caste; discrimination; police inaction Posted in Abolishment, Action, Laws and Regulations, News, Recent cases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=80&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need to eliminate social malpractice &#8220;WITCHCRAFT&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need to eliminate social malpractice Post Report KATHMANDU, June 26 : The need to challenge and monitor the social and religious norms of the country in order to eliminate the discriminatory laws and practices of the society was stressed by various legal experts at an interaction programme organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=73&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>witchcraft blog &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mankind has always attempted to know the unknowable and control it by his own actions.   At the same time, it was recognized that there were powers beyond his ability to control. Throughout history, certain people have been accepted as being better at controlling the powers that represent natural forces such as earthquake, wind, flood,fire and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=71&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9:2 Why not believe in witches?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOURCE: http://letters2lily.blogspot.com/2007/02/92-why-not-believe-in-witches.html People in the majority of human societies both today and in the past believe that much of the pain and trouble in the world is caused by witchcraft. The effects of the stars, of random chance or of God’s punishment, are less appealing as explanations largely because there is less we can do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lawyersnepal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4233031&amp;post=69&amp;subd=lawyersnepal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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