Weakened by a ten-year Maoist insurgency, Nepal faces significant challenges in institutionalizing and enforcing respect for human rights and in strengthening its fledgling democratic institutions. The Government's human rights record remained poor, as there were numerous human rights abuses by members of the security forces, including abuse and disappearance of detainees, the use of torture as punishment or to extract confessions, and arbitrary and unwarranted lethal force. The Maoist insurgents also committed serious human rights abuses and continued their campaign against civilians as well as security forces, frequently committing torture, killings, bombings and forcibly conscripting children. Violence against women, trafficking in women and children for prostitution, and child labor were also human rights concerns. Brian drains, labor migrations, displacement of people etc. are today's major concerns.

  The insurgency has severely undermined the Government's capacity to deliver basic services, provide security and ensure the rule of law, and demonstrate to its population the benefits of democracy, including free and fair elections. The Government's ability to respond appropriately and effectively to human rights violations is hampered by institutional weaknesses, creating an environment of impunity.

  The development environment has become more complex and the relationship between the related policy areas interfacing with the development process, more interlinked. It has become apparent that there is an indisputable link between peace and development. Development without peace is not sustainable and peace without development is not durable. The linkage between the two needs to be understood strengthened and operationalized so that policy and practice in these related areas can be mutually reinforcing. Moreover, actualizing the linkage between development and peace is directly related to building governance capacity. It requires developing institutional and human resources for managing diversity and disputes in stable environments, building capacity to mitigate disputes in emerging conflict situations, and developing governance mechanisms to support reconciliation, co-existence and conflict management efforts in post-conflict situations.

  Youth for Change, Nepal believes that the causes of the present conflict in Nepal are injustice, inequity, and discrimination, exploitation of castes by powerful social groups and political parties and absence of good governance. The present conflict has increased poverty, unemployment, brain drain, labor migration and the further exclusion of poor and marginalized communities and young people are always in the center of these issues. Youth for Change, Nepal strongly feels that the ongoing conflict in Nepal is not a short-term problem. Solutions to the problems have to be long term.

Youth for Change, Nepal endeavors to address the issue of Human Right and Peace through the following actions.

* Political awareness among young people
* Provide information about the principles of human right
* Promote good governance at all levels.
* Capacity building camps for conflicts transformations
* Provide vocational trainings and skills based trainings to young people displaced by various social conflicts.