NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN) emerged as an umbrella organisation of NGOs in the aftermath of democratic political change and establishment of multiparty parliamentary system in 1990. Since its establishment in 1991, the NFN apart from defending NGOs’ autonomy has been fighting for promoting human rights, social justice and pro-poor development. Today, it has evolved [...]
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State Restructuring an Uphill Task?»Forum for Human Rights and Democracy (FOHRID), NGO Federation of Nepal and INSEC organized jointly an interaction programme on December 2, 2009 in Pension Vasana, Kathmandu. The programme firstly aimed at understanding the proposals of different political parties relating to federal system in Nepal. Secondly, it aimed to present to the political parties some seminal [...]
Thousands Participate in Human Rights Rally»Kathmandu, 10 December: Human rights communities and organizations organized a rally today to mark the 61st anniversary of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights. Thousands of people took part in the rally chanting as the main slogans “embrace diversity, end discrimination” and “embrace diversity, and discrimination by the promulgation of the new constitution”. The former [...]
Nepalis Stand against Hunger and Poverty»Nepal mobilized quite a large number of people for Stand Up campaign 16-18 October 2009. Initiated mainly by NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN), 2,056,117 people were mobilized from Nepal on this campaign. The number is 31% higher than the number achieved last year.
NFN massively mobilized its Regional and District Chapters and offices in transporting the [...]
NGO Federation of Nepal organized two separate rallies in Nepalgunj and Mahendranagar on 6th September 2009 to create people’s pressure on the political parties and other stakeholders for the cause of constitution making. Coordinated by the respective regional committees of NFN, the programmes were jointly organized by FECOFUN, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, Federation of [...]
An Interaction Programme on ‘Sustainability: Our Challenge, Our Future in the Context of New Constitution’»NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN) and Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) [www.ayon.org] have jointly organized an interaction Programme today, 11th August 2009, on the eve of International Youth Day which falls on 12 August 2009. The programme on ‘Sustainability: Our Challenge, Our Future in the Context of New Constitution’ was attended by the representatives [...]
Commitments to Promulgation of New Constitution within Stipulated Time»
Leaders of the major political parties have expressed their commitments to promulgate the new constitution on time in an interaction programme organized by CCA and coordinated by NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN) on 4th August 2009.
In the programme on “Timely Constitution: A Civic Concern” civil society leaders cast their doubts on the political parties’ promulgation [...]
TOT on Federalism, Inclusive Democracy and Participatory Constitution Making Ongoing for Regional Level Frontline CSO Activists»
NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN) has conducted a five-day Training of Trainers (TOT) on Federalism, Inclusive Democracy and Participatory Constitution Making at regional levels involving some 300 regional frontline CSO activists, NGO activists and media representatives. Considering the total numbers of districts and the volume of participants, ten TOT programmes were planned that aimed to [...]
