Disability Rights Scholarship Program

2013
The Open Society Foundations awarded full scholarship to 4 students who applied for 2013 Disability Rights Scholarship Program. The program is designed to provide full support to the qualified students to pursue LLM degrees in Disability Rights so that they can attain the necessary expertise to develop new legislation, jurisprudence, impact litigation, and scholarship, thereby taking advantage of the innovations and opportunities offered by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The 2013 Disability Rights Scholarships were awarded to the following Nepali students for the academic year 2013-14:

First Name

Last Name

Program

University

Dev Datta

Joshi

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

NUI-Galway

Meenraj

Panthee

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

NUI-Galway

Prem Singh

Tharu

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

NUI-Galway

Rajendra

Thapa

LLM in Disability RIghts

American University

2012

First Name

Last Name

Program

University

Kiran Chandra

Wagle

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

NUI-Galway

Pooja

Bhandari

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

NUI-Galway

Alpana

Bhandari

LLM in Disability Rights

American University

Bijay Kumar

Dahal

LLM in Disability Rights

American University