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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 school in [...]

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

India’s Role in the Bhutanese Democratic Movement

The role of the Indian government on the paraphernalia of the Bhutanese democratic movement for human rights and democracy begs for more criticism than appreciation. India’s strategic advantage both in terms of location and influence on  governance in Bhutan is hardly concealed from anyone. But after two decades, India’s attitude on the Bhutanese movement remains [...]

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Posted in Commentary on 30 January 2010 Comments (20)

India must play positive role for Bhutan democracy

January 30, 2010: Despite being a leading democracy in world, India always remained silent spectator to many of the democratic struggles in its neighbor. Bhutan is one of them, where India not only acted as mere spectator but sided with autocracy to crash democratic fight. Bhutan Media Society (BMS) called upon leaders from diverse background on [...]

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Posted in Main News on 30 January 2010 Comments (5)

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)

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 Zangpo and [...]

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

HUROB irked by inept responses on Katwal’s strike

Human Rights Organization of Bhutan has expressed serious concern over the inept responses from the government to address the demands raised by N. L. Katwal who has been in hunger strike in Chemgang central jail, Thimph

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Posted in Main News on 09 March 2009 Comments (0)

‘Human rights improved, not satisfactory’

A new human rights report by US department of state said the human rights situation in Bhutan has improved in the year 2007 but is not adequate for in a democratic nation

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Posted in Main News on 26 February 2009 Comments (0)

Bhutanese definition of human rights

In less than a year they adopted the democratic pattern of governance, which was in demand since 1950 in this country, the ‘experts’ who dined under the absolute rule of monarchy have defined what human rights is called in their terms

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Posted in Main News on 24 February 2009 Comments (3)

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