Nepal Specific Resources

Background and Reports on Conflict and Peace Process

The following are Nepal-specific websites (including reports and background information) for the following organisations:

International Organisations

• International Crisis Group
• Human Rights Watch
• Office of the High Commission on Human Rights
• ReliefWeb
• Amnesty International
• Asian Human Rights Commission
• International Center for Transitional Justice

Nepali Organisations

• Informal Sector Service Center
• WOREC Nepal 
• Advocacy Forum
• Federation of Nepali Journalists

 Books about the conflict in Nepal

• Himalayan 'People's War': Nepal's Maoist Rebellion by Michael Hutt, ed. Published by Hurst and Co, 2004
• Kingdom Under Seige: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996-2004 by Deepak Thapa and Bandita Sijapati. Published by Zed Books, 2004
• Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy by Manjurshee Thapa. Published by Penguin Viking, 2005

Selected Resources for learning Nepali

Books

• Teach Yourself Nepali by Dr. Michael Hutt and Professor Abhi Subedi.
• Course in Nepali by David Matthews.
• Basic Course in Spoken Nepali Tika Bahadur Karki and Chij Kumar Shrestha.

Online dictionaries

• Cornell's Nepali-English/Nepali-English Dictionary
• Bruce Adcock's 420-word Unicode Nepali dictionary
• Nepal Homepage's English to Nepali Dictionary
• Ralph Turner's Comparative Dictionary of the Nepali Language
• Ruth Laila Schmidt's Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali
• Nepali-German dictionary

Interactive Language Learning tools

• Phrasebase.com
• Mylanguageexchange.com
• Languageshome.com