- Both government forces and former rebels are accused of carrying out torture, killings, rapes and forced disappearances during Nepal's Maoist insurgency.
- The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the rebels into government and promised justice for the victims, which included more than 16,000 dead and around 1,000 missing.
- Nepal's two transitional justice commissions began operating in 2015, but failed to resolve a single case, despite receiving over 60,000 complaints of murders, torture and unexplained disappearances.