Ganesh BK
HRD, Chairperson
Rastriya Dalit Network
Ganesh BK is Chairperson of the Rastriya Dalit Network, which includes the Dalit Women’s Council, Dalit Students’ Council, Haliya Rights Forum, Dalit Representative Forum, and Untouchability Assessment Centre. The Network offers trainings and orientation workshops to Dalit rights defenders who work for these organisations.
Ganesh BK Vakalar
The situation for human rights defenders has improved since the restoration of Parliament in April 2006 and the Peace Agreement signed in November 2006. However, human rights defenders and journalists have continued to face threats, harassment, and the violent dispersement of peaceful protests by police and security forces. Nepal’s decade-long civil war between 1996 and 2006, in which at least 13,000 people died.
