Category: Human Rights

This is my first human rights report in series. In addition to regular press freedom reports, I commit myself in producing annual human rights report on Bhutan, henceforth. This report brings in the issues of human rights violations, government’s effort towards promoting and protecting human rights of the citizens...

This week a news appeared me on Kuensel that astonished me. If that’s a true news, I am really shocked to learn the idea of justice delivery in the country I was born in. The blockade of Bhutanomics website had invited a heated debate recently and raised questioned the...

Exiled Bhutanese in Beldangi on Tuesday warned of agitation if the Nepalese government fails to take up their demand of repatriation seriously. They also accused the Nepalese government of being reluctant towards their past agitations which were also launched, in part, to pur pressure On Bhutan government for repatriation....

Though the constitution gives right to the people to choose the religion they like and conduct prayers as they wish, Bhutan continues to enforce the policy of zero tolerance against Christianity. Bhutan government has not so far recognized any institutions or church for Christians. Buddhists are supported by the...

ECONOMISTS predict China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy by mid this century, if its unprecedented growth continues with the same pace as in last few decades. Alongside the economic boom, questions have also been raised as to whether this prosperity has reached the citizens...

BY STEPHANE MASSINON, CALGARY HERALD The Bhutanese man who was killed in a shooting with Lethbridge police during a disturbance call had arrived in southern Alberta less than a year ago from a refugee camp in Nepal, said the head of the Canadian Bhutanese Society. Hemlal Timsina, president of...