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Habitat
International Coliation
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON LAND AND HOUSING RIGHTS OF BHUTANESE REFUGEES
[full
letter]
Tek Nath Rizal
Appeals To King
An Appeal To King. [full
letter]
Verification
Exercise Update
It is updated on daily
basis. [full
story] [achieve]
UPDATE ON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION
(Date: 28th June 2001)
Bhutan's 79th National Assembly session is starting from today the 28 June 2001 at
Thimphu, the capital.[full
text]
Visit of UNHCR Desk Officer for South Asia to JVT Office and Refugee Camps
17th May 2001
Ms. Kyoko Yonezu, UNHCR Desk Officer, Geneva for South Asia & Pacific, Incharge for Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka visited JVT office and the Refugee Camps in Jhapa, Nepal.
[full
text]
Asia Pacific NGO Networking Meeting
WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM 2001
Resolution on Bhutan adopted today by the Asia Pacific NGO Networking Meeting [held in Kathmandu, April 27-29, 2000] on the World Conference on Racism to be held in Durban, South Africa in September 2001.[full
text]
Vatican says Asian kingdom of Bhutan persecuting Christians
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A Vatican agency said Monday it is receiving reports that the Asian kingdom of Bhutan is stepping up pressure on its tiny Christian community.[full
story]
CHRISTIANS TOLD TO LEAVE FAITH OR LEAVE BHUTAN
ROME, Apr. 20, 01 (CWNews.com/Fides) - Christians in Bhutan, who make up only 0.33 percent of the population, are facing some of the strongest opposition and persecution they have ever experienced, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports. Fear is growing among believers. Bhutanese Christians are being told to either leave their religion or leave the tiny Asian country, located between India, Nepal, and China.
[full
story]
Bhutan prepares people for clash with NE ultras
(April 16,01)
ExpressIndia.com
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has again warned its people
to be prepared for a devastating conflict with Indian rebel groups which have set up camps along its thickly forested southern
border.[full
story]
Verification
Exercise To Commence from 26th March 2001 from Khudunabari
Camp
The uncertainty of beginning of verification exercise is
over after the announcement of beginning of verification
exercise from Monday, 26th March 2001 starting from
Khudunabari Camp. [full
story]
Bhutanese Verification Team Arrives in Jhapa (March
11, 2001)
The uncertainty over coming back of the Bhutanese team after bonhomie visit
of the camps in January 2001 is finally over. The seventeen-member team headed
by Dasho Dr. Sonam Tenzin, Director, Ministry of Home Affairs, crossed the
Kakarvitta Check Post on March 11, with full preparation to start the physical
verification of the Bhutanese refugees in the camps. [full
story] On March 7, 2001 the refugee community submitted memorandum through
the UN Secretary General HE. Kofi Annan who is currently on a visit to South
Asia. [full
story]
Bhutan/Nepal: A Solution for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal?
A Backgrounder on the Bhutanese refugees.
(New York, February 27, 2001) A recent breakthrough in talks between the governments of Nepal and Bhutan promises new hope for tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, but significant questions remain
about how Nepal and Bhutan will carry out the proposed verification and repatriation of the refugees.
[full story]
On February 15 the following organizations wrote to the governments of Bhutan and Nepal expressing our concerns about the Bhutanese refugees.
Human Rights Watch,
Lutheran World Federation,
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Refugees
International,
Bhutanese Refugee Support Group. [full story]
Disruption of Normal Life in Bhutan
The residents of the district of Samdrupjongkhar are directly feeling the burnt from the presence of Indian militant
groups in Bhutan and the consequences thereof. [full
story]
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