Durga Sob
HRD, Chairperson
Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO)
Durga Sob is the Chairperson of the Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO). Founded in 1994, FEDO aims to support and empower Dalit women.
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The situation for human rights defenders has improved since the restoration of Parliament in April 2006 and the Peace Agreement signed in November 2006. However, human rights defenders and journalists have continued to face threats, harassment, and the violent dispersement of peaceful protests by police and security forces. Nepal’s decade-long civil war between 1996 and 2006, in which at least 13,000 people died.
