Human Rights Watch and Belgium-based think tank International Crisis Group both offer a good overview of the human rights situation in their Nepal sections.

The BBC has a good backgrounder on where Nepal was in August 2008, summing up all the challenges facing Prachanda and the government.

The U.N. Nepal Information Platform offers a wide range of news, press releases and maps on Nepal's political situation, security issues and development.

The U.N. Development Programme page on Nepal offers links to Human Development Reports and information on development success stories.

The Nepal country page for the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, provides information on child-related developments in the conflict and child-centred development initiatives, together with a range of statistics:

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre page on Nepal offers statistics and extensive background information on displacement and its causes.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has a film on the conflict in Nepal.