Policy recommendation to end untouchability

The state should introduce new laws and policies to enforce the constitutional and legal provisions against it.

Nepal is a de facto caste-apartheid state. A 2007 Human Rights Watch report on the “untouchables” of India observed, “The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid in South Africa.” The HRW has declared caste discrimination a form of “hidden apartheid”—an apt observation for Nepal as well.