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Bhutan Last Hope The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India This 86-page report discusses the possible solutions to this protracted refugee situation and the choices the refugees now face. It describes conditions of the ethnic Nepali refugees who have languished in exile in Nepal and India, and also documents continuing discrimination against the ethnic Nepalis still living in Bhutan, who live in fear that they too could be stripped of their citizenship and expelled from the country. HRW Index No.: C1907 May 17, 2007 Download PDF, 363 KB, 88 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Trapped by Inequality Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal Bhutanese refugee women in Nepal encounter gender-based violence and systematic discrimination in access to aid.This 77-page report examines the uneven response of UNHCR and the government of Nepal to rape, domestic violence, sexual and physical assault, and trafficking of girls and women from refugee camps. These problems persist despite reforms UNHCR introduced after internal investigations uncovered “sexual exploitation” of refugee women and girls by aid workers in Nepal and West Africa in 2002. The Human Rights Watch report shows how Nepal’s laws constrain the prosecution of gender-based violence. Specific domestic violence legislation does not exist in Nepal. A 35-day statute of limitations and burdensome medical reporting procedures prevent rape victims from filing complaints with the police and pressing criminal charges. The same obstacles have prevented any prosecution of aid workers and Nepalese government employees accused of “sexual exploitation” in October 2002. HRW Index No.: C1508 September 24, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Bhutan: Child Soldier Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are no current indications of under-18s in government armed forces. In the early and mid-1990s there were reports of forced child recruitment into the Royal Bhutan Army as well as child involvement in militias and village defence forces. Insurgent activity continues in Bhutan by armed groups from northeast India and exiled Nepali-speaking refugees from Bhutan. June 12, 2001 Bhutan: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Bhutan has not signed the Mine Ban Treaty or Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons. It did not participate in the Ottawa Process. It did not attend any of the major diplomatic meetings on landmines in 1999 or 2000. It has, however, voted in favor of all pro-ban UN General Assembly resolutions since 1996, including the December 1999 resolution supporting the Mine Ban Treaty. Bhutan also sent a representative to the International Committee of the Red Cross' South Asia Regional Seminar on Landmines, held in Sri Lanka 18-20 August 1999. August 1, 2000
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