Advocate, licensed in Nepal — a licensed lawyer currently serving as Human Rights Officer at the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal: investigating violations, monitoring detention and elections, reviewing legislation, and pleading before the courts. Off duty: writing fiction about the people the case files can’t hold.
I am a lawyer first. Human rights are not abstractions to me — they are case files with names: a detainee’s cell, a migrant’s contract, a survivor’s testimony — and my work is to put them on the record.
An Advocate licensed to practise in Nepal, I have since 2019 served as a Human Rights Officer at the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal, working across the Legal Affairs Division: investigating violations in the post-conflict landscape, preparing and presenting case briefs before the Commission’s bench, monitoring prisons, detention centres and elections, and reviewing the laws that are supposed to protect people.
I hold an LL.M. in Human Rights and Gender Justice and a B.A.LL.B specialised in Criminal Law from Kathmandu School of Law. I plead on behalf of the Commission in the courts of Nepal, draft its recommendations to Government, and carry its voice into rooms from Kathmandu to Bangkok.
Human rights investigation in the post-conflict scenario; documentation and compilation of violations.
Case briefs · bench presentationMonitoring of prisons and detention centres against national and international standards.
OPCAT-informed practiceReviewing bills, laws and the National Human Rights Action Plan for compliance with rights obligations.
Recommendations to GovernmentPleading on behalf of the NHRC in the courts of Nepal; litigation strategy on impunity.
Enforced disappearance · EJKRights of migrant workers and trafficking survivors — from field monitoring to trainer-of-trainers work.
NHRC · UNDP · IOMGender justice and social inclusion across investigations, institutions and law reform.
LL.M. specialisationAI governance, hate speech and disinformation — moderating the conversation where law meets code.
UNESCO panels · 2022–23Designing and facilitating trainings for officials, lawyers and youth across Nepal.
Curriculum · moderationNHRC delegate · UNDP & UNAIDS · Bangkok
Secretariat · Kathmandu
Moderator · UNESCO Nepal
Academic session lead · UNESCO Nepal
Panelist · UNESCO & UNRCO Nepal
Panelist · UNESCO Nepal
Secretariat · Kathmandu
Organizing team · Kathmandu
What Nepal’s legal framework promises persons with disabilities — and where the ramp ends before the courtroom door.
Jun 20267 min Field noteMonitoring detention means reading the registry — and then reading the silences between its lines.
May 20266 min CommentaryAI governance is a human-rights question wearing a technology costume. Notes from the UNESCO panel table.
Apr 20268 min