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March 20, 2010 – The government accepted a majority of the recommendations it received for its first universal periodic review (UPR), during the 13th session of the human rights council (HRC) held on March 18 in Geneva. Of the remainder, the delegation pointed out that some are already addressed by existing laws and the rest [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 23 March 2010 Comments (0)

Bhutan’s human rights record poor: Report

March 12, 2010: The US state department’s annual human rights report documents a number of human rights violation incidents in Bhutan in the year 2009 despite liberalization of political and religious freedom. According to the report released on Thursday, there were five cases of disappearance in February 2009 from Samchi reported to UN Working Group [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 12 March 2010 Comments (6)

Domestic workers arrested, flushed out

March 10, 2010: Immigration officials have arrested some 130 people from Thimphu, Paro, Haa, Wangduephodrang, Punakha and Chhukha who were working as maids and baby sitter without obtaining permission from the government. Those arrested by the officials are as young as 10 years, and most came from India while few from Nepal. 40 were voluntarily [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 10 March 2010 Comments (0)

Fatherless children remain unregistered

March 5, 2010: The recent annual census registration carried out across the country has left many children without being registered. The major problem behind the failure to remain these children without being registered is clueless father, most of them born out of night hunting. According to national law, it is mandatory to mention father in [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 05 March 2010 Comments (0)

Three injured in capital’s road accident

March 03, 2010: At least three people have been injured in a vehicle accident at the Debum Lam in Hongkong market, Thimphu on Tuesday. A Chinese bus lost control and crashed unto motor vehicles parked by the roadside damaging over a dozen of cars at around 2:15 pm. The bus however suffered minor damage on [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 03 March 2010 Comments (0)

Right to education at risk

February 25, 2010: The right to education in Bhutan is likely to deteriorate in the years to come, thanks to rigidity in issuing new permits to open more private colleges in the country. Less than half of the grade 10 pass out students will get admission this year in government-run higher secondary schools. Noting poor [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 25 February 2010 Comments (0)

Fake assurance to Dagana residents

January 31, 2010: People of Goshi geog under Dagana failed get government’s assurance to reopen their Goshi Junior High School by early 2010 tuned out to be a foul play of politics. The school was turned into an army barrack after 1990 and remained closed for two decades and more. Due to absence of the [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 31 January 2010 Comments (0)

Despite Democracy, Christians in Bhutan Remain Underground

THIMPHU, Bhutan, In this distant and isolated nation in the eastern Himalayas, known as the “Land of the Thunder Dragon,” almost everything looks uniformly Buddhist. Most men and women in the landlocked country between India and China wear their national dress, and all the buildings – with their sloping walls, trefoil-shaped windows and pitched roofs [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 26 January 2010 Comments (3)

When children abandon books to earn a living

Since the days of Victorian England where children were exploited as chimney sweeps, the world has become a more advanced place where child labor is no longer accepted. In a country such as Bhutan, where small rural families depend on every family member contributing to the care and maintenance of agricultural holdings, child labor is [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 20 January 2010 Comments (0)

Delay in justice delivery

Jan 18: Absence of judges at the existing highest court of the country has badly affected justice delivery almost for last one month. The High Court, the existing apex court of the country currently has only one sitting judge while regulation needs at least two judges to for hearing cases and giving verdict. With Jigme [...]

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Posted in Human Rights Monitor on 18 January 2010 Comments (0)

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