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Towards A Global Network of Rights: The Experience of Nepal

The article was published in EUMAP, a publication of the Soros Foundation, and the newsletter of Forefront: A network of human rights advocates, a non-profit based in New York. Sushma Joshi is a consultant with UNDP's Access to Justice program in Nepal and staff writer at the Nation Weekly magazine in Kathmandu Electronic resources, particularly the Internet, have become a lifeline for many human rights activists around the world who otherwise do not have access to global information networks. Human rights activism centres around two kinds of work: the slow, day-to-day work of fighting for reforms on a larger scale, and a quick response to an emergency. In both cases, the Internet proves its effectiveness by linking people, providing information via reliable institutions and networks, and allowing momentum to build Internet for Human Rights in South Asia The Internet, as a medium of networking and advocacy, had already made important inroads in South Asia as early as in 1996. I saw