Bhutan Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Since the early 1990s, over 100,000 refugees of ethnic Nepalese origin from southern Bhutan have been living in camps in eastern Nepal after they were arbitrarily stripped of their nationality and forced to flee Bhutan. These 100,000 people constitute about one-sixth of the population of Bhutan. The Bhutanese refugee situation has become one of the most protracted and neglected refugee crises in the world. Despite many rounds of bilateral talks between the governments of Nepal and Bhutan, a durable, rights-respecting solution to the plight of the Bhutanese refugees does not seem close. Amnesty International also remains concerned about continuing reports of discrimination against ethnic Nepalese living in Bhutan.
Latest News
Bhutan: International observers should be given access to Indo-Bhutan borderDecember 22, 2003
Bhutan: Refugees face further set back
October 03, 2000
Bhutan: Amnesty International welcomes release of prisoners of conscience
December 20, 1999
Bhutan: Crack-down on "anti-nationals" in the east
January 11, 1998
Latest Reports
Vital UN human rights work under threatMay 09, 2007
Bhutan: Open letter regarding bi-lateral agreement with the USA concerning the International Criminal Court.
June 04, 2003
Bhutan: Ten years later and still waiting to go home: The case of the refugees
August 31, 2002
Bhutan: Nationality, Expulsion, Statelessness and the Right to Return
August 31, 2000
