Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people. These refugees registered in refugee camps in eastern Nepal during the 1990s as Bhutanese citizens who fled or were deported from Bhutan during the protest against the Bhutanese government by some of the Lhotshampas demanding human rights ...

2016年9月21日 · Bhutan is the world’s biggest creator of refugees by per capita. In one fell swoop in the 1990s, the country expelled the Lhotshampa, an ethnic group with its origins in Nepal which made up...

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov 19 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday marked a major milestone: the resettlement of over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees from Nepal to third countries …

2024年12月19日 · Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of...

AHURA Bhutan’s Documentation of Bhutanese Refugees project aims to be a useful and effective advocacy tool to authenticate the Bhutanese refugees’ nationality status and to promote their rights to nationality, return and restitution of property.

2024年3月21日 · In 2022 a Bhutanese refugee, with whom we have worked for more than a decade, raised the issue of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) phasing out their support for the remaining Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

2024年10月13日 · During his current visit to Australia, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has overlooked a key diaspora group — the more than 6,000 Australians from Bhutan or of Bhutanese descent who were expelled from Bhutan in the early 1990s. (Manuel Augusto Moreno / Moment / …

2007年11月6日 · The long-awaited resettlement of refugees from Bhutan will soon start, with the first group of accepted refugees set to leave Nepal's camps early next year.

This website tells the story of the Bhutanese refugees. It explains why these people became refugees and where they have resettled. On this site you can explore how they became exiled, their lives in refugee camps, resettling in new countries and the ongoing situation for Lhotshampas in Bhutan.

2009年1月20日 · Since then, more than 40,000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in eight Core Group countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees is significantly decreasing camp populations.