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www.bhutannewsonline.com
for daily news updates on Bhutan
and Bhutanese refugees
June 02, 2003:
The
fourteenth
round of
Nepal Bhutan Ministerial
Joint Committee
(MJC) Meeting on
Bhutanese refugees was held in
Kathmandu, Nepal
on
May 19-22,
2003.
Please click on the
Link to read the story in details. The MJC finally agreed
on their joint stand on four categories and issued a statement on Agreed
Position on the Four Categories (APFC). Please read original official
Press Release and APFC document.
NEW
May 29, 2003: The Amnesty
International, London released the Annual Human Rights
Report on Bhutan for 2002. Please click on the
Amnesty Website to read the report.
NEW
May 13, 2003.:
Bhutanese Refugee face Discrimination and Loss of Citizenship
upon return to Bhutan according to the latest Report of Human
Rights watch, USA released on May 13, 2003. Please view
the report on
Human Rights Watch Website. or
Click on the Report
NEW
May 13, 2003.
Bhutanese refugees say " We don't want to be refugee again", a
report of Human Rights Watch released on May 13, 2003.
Please view the report on
Human
Rights Watch Website.
NEW
April 12, 2003: Bhutan govt.'s human rights record
remained poor, and problems remained in several areas.
according to the United States Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
on Bhutan - 2002 Released by the US State Department, Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor March 31, 2003. Please
click on the link
US State Department website or
US Human Rights Report 2002
to read it, April 12, 2003.
NEW
April 12, 2003.:
Bhutanese refugees demonstrated
in front of the
United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland,
the venue
for the
Eighth Round Table Meeting ( RTM) of the Royal Government of Bhutan and
international development partners on February 18-19, 2003.
Click on the RTM demonstration
link to read it.
NEW
April 12, 2003: The
Thirteenth
round of
Nepal Bhutan Ministerial
Joint Committee
(MJC) Meeting
was held in
Thimphu Bhutan
on
March 24-26,
2003.
Please click on Nepal
Bhutan Talk to read the details.
NEW
February 11, 2003:
Appeal to Donors to Bhutan
and International Community
February 11, 2003
NEW
The
Twelfth round
of Nepal Bhutan Joint Ministerial Level Committee Talk was
held in Kathmandu for one day on February 06, 2003.
Please click to read in
details.
February 11, 2003
NEW
January 31, 2003: Please read Mr. Rakesh Chhetri's
latest article
DONORS' MEET AND BHUTANESE REFUGEES published in
the Kathmandu Post on January 31, 2003
January 07, 2003: The
Verified Bhutanese refugees at Khudunabari have launched an
indefinite relay hunger strike at Khudunabari from the 7th of
January 2003, demanding the Royal Government of Bhutan and His
Majesty’s Government of Nepal to:
1.
Immediately declare the result of verification of Khudunabari
camp,
2. Start the
verification by JVT in other remaining camps and,
3. Start
repatriation and rehabilitation of the verified Bhutanese
citizens back to their homesteads.
For full account of hunger
strike read various new links at
www.bhutannewsonline.com
and its archieves of January 2003
Refugee population: Please click on this link for latest
Bhutanese Refugee
Population Statistics
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