“We appeal to the Prime Minister of India to take all necessary action to bring this crisis to an immediate end and ease the suffering of the Nepali people,” read a statement issued by the group on Friday.
India closed its border to cargo movement into Nepal immediately after the promulgation of constitution on September 20. This has resulted in widespread shortage of daily essentials like gasoline, diesel, cooking gas, medicines and food supplies in the country which has already suffered enough from a massive earthquake on April 25. Due to the shortage of fuel, the government has failed to carry out reconstruction works and supply relief to victims.
The human rights organisations have warned that Nepal is in the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the embargo which violates the UN Convention on Laws of the Sea and several other treaties between Nepal and India. They also came heavily upon Indian propaganda that the new constitution was not accepted by a large section of Nepali population resulting in violent protests in Tarai.
Lauding the new constitution, members of FORUM-ASIA said that the constitution drafting process “followed an extensive discussion on all provisions, and collection of comments and feedback on the draft from a wide cross-section of the population” concluding that “the constitution has had widespread acceptance across Nepal”.
Among the organisations which came up with the statement are Ain O Sailash Kendro of Bangladesh, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Inform Human Rights Documentation Centre of Sri Lanka, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights of India and Informal Sector Service Centre of Nepal.
In the statement, the rights organisations urge Indian authorities to immediately lift the blockade and also appeal to the international community to ease the crisis faced by Nepal.
Look again. The encircled area is where the 'woman' stands, according to UFO Sightings Daily.
In a post titled 'A strange woman walking on Mars? News intriguing images of Mars are discussed on the Internet', the writer elaborates on the vision, writing, "It seems there is a woman standing on top of a cliff, with long hair, wearing a dress, watching the Jeep probe. Just above, it appears an impression that leads to something similar to a manhole with a lever at the top. And next, it is something that looks like a small building or a tent. Logo on your left, there seems to be a painting on the wall (a greeting?)." These points are illustrated with zoomed and highlighted images the apparent shapes.
The 'Woman on Mars' images were to quick to go viral with some speculating about its authenticity while most joked about the unlikeliness of signs of life on Mars, much less humanoid signs.
While the internet debates (and jokes) about the woman who made it to Mars, the whole idea seems to be more like a Rorschach test — 'What can you see in the image'? Some may see a rock protrusion, others a shadow and maybe some will see the apparition. So, what do you see?
