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• Bhutan

  The path to women’s political participation in Bhutan

  8 May, by RINZIN Yangchen C.

  In Bhutan’s 2023 National Council elections, only one woman was elected to the NC from a female population of around 360,000. Despite progress in recent years, women still face challenges to political participation.
  “Of course, it was also because they trusted my capability, but I have seen (...)

• LGT+ (Bhutan)

  Bhutan parliament decriminalizes homosexuality, to delight of activists

  10 December 2020, by GUPTA Jahnavi

  A joint sitting of both houses of Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, making the tiny Himalayan kingdom the latest Asian nation to take steps towards easing restrictions on same-sex relationships.
  Sections 213 and 214 of the penal code had criminalized (...)

• Bhutan

  Ethnic cleansing : The Enigma of Bhutan

  7 mars 2012, par BIRD Kai

  Dilli Ram Dhimal, 73, sits cross-legged on his bed in a bamboo shack in Goldhap, a camp that once housed some 5,000 Bhutanese refugees in southeastern Nepal. In a month he will arrive in America, a citizen of the New World. He stares at me through eyeglasses thick as a magnifying glass. He (...)

• Bhutan

  Seminar on the Right to Repartition of Bhutanese Refugees

  26 April 2010, by People’s SAARC

  People’s SAARC 2010
  Seminar on the Right to Repartition of Bhutanese Refugees: Sharing testimonies by Bhutanese refugees with south Asian representatives
  25-26 April 2010, Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal
  Organized by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and the Bhutanese (...)

• Bhutan

  Bhutan: A democratic facade to hide oppression

  25 October 2008, by PETERSON Ben

  If you’ve read what the mainstream media has had to say about Bhutan in the last year then you would probably have a strong impression of Bhutan and its government: a monarchy that has “given up its power” and embraced democracy.
  You would probably know of a government that has chosen to (...)

• Bhutan

  Royally Regimented Polls in Bhutan

  29 April 2008, by CPI (ML) Liberation

  The elections to Bhutan’s National Assembly on March 24 couldn’t be a greater contrast with the Constituent Assembly elections of April 10 in Nepal. Whereas the Nepalese polls reflected the full force of energy and tumult of the years of struggle against the monarchy, Bhutan’s first-ever (...)

• Bhutan

  Bhutan Learns to Vote

  20 March 2007, by THAKURIA Nava

  A remote Buddhist kingdom prepares for an experiment in electoral politics with an April 21 dress rehearsal before the big day.
  Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between Nepal, India and China, is off on a new adventure. Dragon King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who abdicated from the (...)