The U.S. has offered to resettle 60,000 of the estimated 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin now living in seven U.N. camps in southeastern Nepal -- their home for the p ...

In the 1990s, the government of Bhutan rolled out a harsh ethnic cleansing policy aimed at its minority Nepali-speaking ...

where the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) established seven temporary camps. Seventy-year-old Muktangtamang recalls fleeing southern Bhutan's Sarpang district with a "thuncha" basket of clothes and ...

The ambitious ‘mega city’ plan is a violent appropriation of the homeland and memories of the displaced Lhotshampa people.

For sixteen years these Bhutanese refugees have languished in seven refugee camps in Nepal with no resolution to their plight. In October 2006, however, the United States announced its willingness ...

When it comes to longevity, consider that International Women’s Day has taken place each March 8 for more than a century, dating back to before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave American ...

Although her own rations were reinstated, the RCU has kept her application for the children to be registered as Bhutanese refugees “pending” for the last three years. Without Nepalese ...

The book, titled My Grandfather’s Life Journey – A Nepali speaking Bhutanese refugee’s story, was also an effective tool for Ms Thapa to cope with the grief of her grandfather's death due to ...

Based off of previous research in Rwanda on the FSI for HIV affected populations, the FSI-R was developed using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, initially co-created with ...

The conclusion of a two-part series on the fraudulent certification of Nepali citizens as Bhutanese refugees examines the domestic and foreign implications of the scandal. Part one of a two-part ...