{"id":30421,"date":"2018-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/nepal-report-3905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:30:23","slug":"nepal-report-3905","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/reports\/nepal-report-3905\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4c092d4bfa14709fce67e14975bb969a.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government of Nepal has disregarded its commitments under international law to freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression by criminalising conversion and the \u2018hurting of religious sentiment\u2019 in the penal code and constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB, called for a \u2018global repeal of blasphemy laws\u2019 in his first report at the United Nations General Assembly in November 2017 and stressed that \u201canti-blasphemy, anti-apostasy or anti-conversion laws\u2026serve as platforms for enabling intolerance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nepal is also restricting the right to freedom of religion or belief by denying religious minorities the ability to register their places of worship and refusing to supply them with land to use for burial. These contraventions of international human rights law is made even more striking as Nepal assumes its seat as a first time member of the UN Human Rights Council in January 2018. To find out more, <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2018-04-nepal.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><b>read our latest report on Nepal<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations to the government of Nepal.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44416,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[125,121],"class_list":["post-30421","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-nepal","regions-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35378,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30421\/revisions\/35378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30421"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}