© A.V. Shenoy, R.P. Vyas and R. Murarka, 2020 | doi:10.1163/9789004437784_017 This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. State Practice of Asian Countries in International Law Nepal Amritha V. Shenoy*, Ravi Prakash Vyas** and Rachit Murarka*** Air Law – Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal Convention), 1999 Nepal acceded to the Convention on 16 October 2018. The Convention amended the Warsaw Convention. It also consolidates the Warsaw conven- tion and related treaties dealing with civil aviation. The convention applies to international carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo. Article 17 of the Convention provides for the liabilities of the international carriage. Article 21 makes provisions for “compensation in case of death or injury of passengers.” The compensation provided is mentioned in Special Drawing Rights that is described in Article 23. Criminal Law – Crime Victim Protection Act, 2018 Article 21 of the Constitution of Nepal, 2015 provides the right of victims to justice. Right to victims is elucidated in the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crimes and Abuse of Power and under Article 25 of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime. In this regard, the Act is a comprehensive one that provides various rights to crime victims like the right to fair treatment under Section 4, right against dis- crimination according to Section 5, right to privacy under Section 6, right to information relating to investigation under Section 7 and other rights for crime victims. * Assistant Professor, Kathmandu School of Law, Bhaktapur, Nepal. ** Assistant Professor, Kathmandu School of Law, Bhaktapur, Nepal. *** Assistant Professor, Kathmandu School of Law, Bhaktapur, Nepal. We acknowledge our research assistant, Rasmi Regmi, for assisting us to come up with this comprehensive piece on Nepal’s State practice. Amritha V. Shenoy, Ravi Prakash Vyas, and Rachit Murarka - 9789004437784 Downloaded from Brill.com01/26/2022 12:41:46PM via free access