Conflict Victims' Committee (CVC).
The Conflict Victims’ Committee (CVC) was established in 2006 with the aim of supporting the victims of conflict in Nepal. CVC has following special objectives:
- To make public of the disappearance people during the conflict
- To coordinate concerned national and international organizations for making public the disappearance of people
- To aware people of the legal instruments for disappearance cases, including compensation
- To provide economic support to the victims’ family
- To provide legal support to the victims’ and the victims’ family.
CVC’s main work is in two specific programmes:
Pilot Programme for Justice
This Pilot Programme for Justice was funded for six months by the UK Embassy of Nepal . This programme focused on disappearances during Nepal’s Internal Armed Conflict, working with the victims of the disappearances and extra judicial killings. The victims’ families were provided with skills development and income generation programmes. A small amount of monetary support was also provided for them to invest and to run a small grocery shop and goat farming. Although the initial funding period is over, the CVC has been regularly keeping in contact with these victims to observe how they have benefited from the activities, and are discussing with the embassy funding for further programmes.
Justice and Reconciliation for Transitional Period
This program was funded by Canadian Cooperation Office (CCO) and also aims to help conflict victims to raise their economic condition through skills development and income generation trainings. The programme further works to provide legal assistance for disappearance cases and extra-judicial killings.
Beside above programmes, the CVC has documented disappearance cases in Bardiya district. CVC has been campaigning for victims’ justice and for establishing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), organizing many activities such and protests. CVC has been developing citizens’ awareness of the legal instruments for filing cases for disappearances and the extra-judicial killings.
CVC is working to establish a network of the organizations working for conflict victims. CVC is further trying to seek the attention of concerned international organizations by providing information about the conflict victims, especially the victims of disappearances. CVC recently submitted a memorandum to the government through the Chief District Officer (CDO) of Bardiya to moral pressure for the establishment of the TRC, a Disappearances Commission and Reparations Commission, which the government has now agreed to form.
