Dhanmaya Muktangtamang is among the thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese citizens forced to flee the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in the 1990s under its "one nation, one people" policy. Introduced ...

DAMAK, Nepal, July 14 (UNHCR) - As the brooding monsoon clouds unleash torrents of rain on the newly-planted jewel-green rice fields and tea plantations of eastern Nepal, the prospects of repatriating ...

In a joint statement, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Lutheran World Federation, Refugees International, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, and the Bhutanese Refugee Support Group, called on ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 8 September 2009 More ...

FARGO - As the smoke from burning incense and candle flames rose to the ceiling, the Bhutanese refugees closed their eyes and prayed for Nepal, the earthquake ravaged nation that had once sheltered ...

A classroom full of Bhutanese refugee children in Beldangi. Many of them have been denied resettlement to be with their families already in the US. Photo: JAMIE PIOTROWSKI On 20 June it will be ...

Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay and Nepal’s Foreign Minister Bala Nanda Sharma have arrived in Dhaka to attend the ...

The Bhutanese community in Nepal observed the 118th National Day of the Kingdom of Bhutan by expressing heartfelt congratulations and paying tribute to the Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, ...

A former refugee, legally resettled in America after exile from Bhutan 30 years ago, has been sent back decades later as Trump’s anti-immigration agenda revives old horrors. The conclusion of a ...