Category: Human Rights

Those who not know the wraths of ethnic policies exaggerate the virginity and natural splendor of Bhutan. Additionally, culture preserved over centuries is also the subject of attraction for the western visitors. The government policy is to preserve the Drukpa culture – the culture of the ruling class who...

Before the resettlement began, there was debate among Bhutanese in exile whether the movement for justice, human rights and democracy will continue. One group said, it will vanish while others said it will get a new height. The discussion is at the google group again on this subject. Some...

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....