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F.a: Promoting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples

Lawyers? Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP) is a pioneer organization established in 1995 by professional indigenous lawyers to work for human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous Peoples in Nepal. LAHURNIP envisions a situation where Indigenous Peoples of Nepal are freely enjoying collective rights, including right to self-determination, ownership and control over lands, territories and resources, customary rights and justice system and self-determined development. LAHURNIP is committed to protecting, promoting and defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Nepal. LAHURNIP promotes meaningful implementation of the ILO Convention No. 169, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) inter alia with other international human rights instruments that Nepal is a party to. It has been working to create solidarity to the regional and international Indigenous Peoples' rights promotional initiatives. LAHURNIP empowers, mobilizes and provides technical support to engage in advocacy, and legal aid to those Indigenous Peoples whose lands territories, resources and livelihoods are disproportionately affected by or struggling to defend human rights violated mainly by the State, development aggression, and business/economic activities. Another sector of LAHURNIP?s work is to produce knowledge on the rights of Indigenous Peoples through evidence collection, decolonizing research, documentation, critical policy analysis, high level policy dialogues, and dissemination to a wider audience to create public discourse and influence in policy change in line with the UNDRIP and ILO Convention No. 169. Long-term objective of the grant (impact): State and corporations are accountable towards Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights. www.lahurnip.org