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Resettled Bhutanese join Gutterres to celebrate refugee day

Washington DC (USA), June 22: The Bhutanese citizens, Khagendra Baral and wife,Ganga spoke on behalf of fellow-Bhutanese at a gathering at National geographic Society ,Grosvenor Auditorium on the occasion of World Refugee Day on June 18. Khagendra (left) with the UNHCR good-will ambassador (middle) and his wife, Ganga “We were invited to give a small presentation by Catholic [...]

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Australian award to Bhutanese citizen for outstanding contribution

Twenty-one refugees including the Bhutanese citizen who have made remarkable contributions to Victoria were added to the Victorian Refugee Recognition Record (VRRR) at a ceremony on June 17 during refugee week. Parsuram (right) with Rob Hulls, deputy Premier and Attorney Genaral of Victoria (middle) and wife, Tanka Maya Sharma LuitalAmong the recipients of VRRR award included Parsuram Sharma Luitel

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Three died from poisonous mushroom consumption

Three exiled Bhutanese have died and seven others have fallen critically ill due to the consumption of poisonous mushroom in Ilam, eastern Nepal. Identified as Tul Bahadur Tamang, Phurba Tamang and Man Maya Tamang, residents of Bhutanese refugee camp, Timai in Jhapa died while undergoing treatment at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan

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Resettled Bhutanese to share stories at WRD

Arizona (USA), June 13 : Khagenra Baral and wife, Ganga, are scheduled to speak on behalf of the resettled Bhutanese at the World Refugee Day event on June 18, wrote the Catholic News Agency quoting a press release of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The USCCB release issued on June 10 said, “Khagendra and [...]

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Non-Bhutanese proceeds process for resettlement

An exiled woman has disclosed that a non-Bhutanese has become successful to proceed his process for third country resettlement up to cultural orientation classes, the last step before receiving the departure date. According to Phul Maya Rai of Beldangi-II extension, Hira Shrestha of Kathmandu valley in Nepal, was pushed for getting the official ‘refugee identity card’ instead [...]

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Feature

Real People, Real Needs

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The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCR) figured that the major returns were from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Tanzania to Burundi and from various countries to Sudan among others. It is a bitter reality that one out of four refugees in the world is from Afghanistan and Afghans are located in 69 different asylum countries. The World Refugee Survey 2009 published by the USCR mentioned that every year hundreds of thousands of refugees return to their home countries, but not always voluntarily. In some cases, fundamental changes in their home countries end the dangers that have forced them to flee and overtly forcible return remain rare.

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Interview

Human rights and political groups are less trustworthy: Subba

Having seen no solution for the exiled Bhutanese even after 18 years of bitter stay in the UNHCR-administered camps, several countries have come forward with an offer of resettling the interested Bhutanese in their countries under the Third Country Resettlement Process (TCRP). The International Organization for Migration at Damak said that over 15 thousands Bhutanese citizens have already gone to the United States of America, Australia, Canada and other European countries so far. Also more than 60 thousands have declared their interests for the TCRP. Meanwhile, Senior Citizens Bhutan (SCB) has initiated filling up forms for repatriation. HarkajunJ Subba, the coordinator of SCB talks to Saranarthi Sarokar of Bhutan News Service on the latest repatriation initiative.

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Non Resident Bhutanese

Rongthong clarifies some NRB doubts

NRB was a proposal put forth for discussion. In course, we received hundreds of comments and suggestions in online as well as in email. Some sent their verbal messages. The debate is going on. We sought few other parties and organization about their position but we are yet to get their response. To answer few of [...]

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