Category: Human Rights

Reportedly, rape wasn’t the social problem in Bhutan until recently despite the fact that Bhutanese are liberal to sex relations. However, government terms the fashionable projection of women as vulgar and put ban on all such activities, including viewing the fashion TVs. The volumes of reports in the last...

Bhutan’s connection to South Asia is connected not by geography but through ethnic combination and it would be irrelevant to mention that the relation between the Himalayan kingdom with India was possible in absence of Nepal. In short, Bhutan’s connection with South Asia begins with Nepal, if not, at...

Bhutan, well, emerged as a promoter of happiness parameter to measure the status of social well being. Unfortunately, the country failed to ensure that the principle becomes part of the Bhutanese society. Bhutan talked much of happiness, implemented less of it. Bhutan King’s idea of Gross National Happiness over...

IOM chief in Nepal taks about the resettlement process of Bhutanese refugees and problems arisen during this process....

Bhawani Acharya faced it twice when he had to change the way of his life. Two days before the festival of Dashain, he left Nepal for what he hoped as a wonderland. In 1993, he was forced to flee his country of origin, Bhutan, to take asylum in Nepal...

On October 18, 1995, when father William Mackey died of gum that led to blood poisoning, Bhutanese royal family paid a visit to the dead body in honor of his service but then queen mother accompanied the dead body halfway to Phuentsholing not allowing a burial place for the...