Going by World Health Organisation (WHO) data, Nepal ranks very high in suicide rates, with 15 people taking their lives every day, on average. The country ranks seventh in the
(The following statement has been prepared by individuals concerned with the arrest and detention of journalist, activist and Himal Southasian's founding editor Kanak Mani Dixit by the Commission
(Since Kanak Mani Dixit's arrest on 22 April 2016, several organisations around the world have issued statements in his support and asking for his release.)
South Asians for
Editors and media figures as well as intellectuals and scholars have called for the release of Himal editor and prominent Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.
