Bhutan

March 30, 2011

For Bhutan’s refugees, there’s no place like home

Bhutan should at least allow elderly refugees to spend their remaining days in their homeland.

Migrants

March 30, 2011 Commentary

For Bhutan’s refugees, there’s no place like home

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: Global Post
Refugee Rights

Ganga Baral is among the first of thousands of Bhutanese refugees who will be arriving in the United States during the next several years. She and her family arrived this Spring in Phoenix from a refugee camp in the farthest eastern reaches of Nepal, a landlocked country known to Americans, if at all, as the location for Mount Everest.

June 22, 2009 Commentary

Bhutanese refugees begin new life in Arizona

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: Jesuit Refugee Services
Refugee Rights

Bhutan’s image as an otherworldly and harmonious kingdom was rocked on 20 January by coordinated bomb blasts in the capital, Thimpu, and three other locations. The bombs caused minimal damage but generated political shockwaves at a time when the Himalayan state is struggling to transform itself from an autocratic monarchy into a democracy.

February 1, 2008 Commentary

Bhutan's ethnic cleansing

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: New Statesman

Reports More Reports

October 3, 2007

Discrimination against Ethnic Nepali Children in Bhutan

Submission from Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
May 16, 2007

Last Hope

The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India
September 23, 2003

Trapped by Inequality

Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal

News

January 26, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission on Bhutan to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
April 16, 2008 Letter

Letter to Prime Minister of Bhutan regarding discrimination against ethnic Nepalis
October 3, 2007 Background Briefing

Discrimination against Ethnic Nepali Children in Bhutan
July 4, 2007 Commentary

China and Bhutan: crushing dissent

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch

Published In: openDemocracy
June 20, 2007 Commentary

Bhutanese Refugees: The Right of Return, the Chance for Resettlement

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: The Huffington Post
May 31, 2007 News Release

Nepal: Bhutanese Refugee Tensions Erupt Into Violence
May 17, 2007 News Release

Nepal: US Offer to Resettle Bhutanese Refugees Sparks Tensions
May 17, 2007 Commentary

Forgotten in Nepal

Bill Frelick
Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: The Wall Street Journal Asia
March 29, 2007 Letter

Letter to SAARC Leaders In Anticipation of Summit In New Delhi
February 14, 2007 Statements

Stateless Refugee Children from Bhutan Living in Nepal
February 9, 2006 Letter

Nepal/Bhutan: Donors Called On To Resolve Protracted Refugee Problem
December 15, 2004 Letter

Letter Regarding Bhutanese Refugee Conditions

Daily Brief

May 25, 2017

"It's a men's club" in Iran; threat of election violence looms in Kenya; "bloodiest day" in Bahrain since 2011; migrants drown off Libya; the new-look Gambia; "gender apartheid" in Saudi; NATO talks in Brussels; sex slaves of Al-Shabab; Trump ignores Saudi's Yemen abuses; & France's state of emergency.