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The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India

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• I. Executive Summary

• II. Recommendations

• III. Background

• IV. Life in the Refugee Camps in Nepal

• Cuts in Essential Services

• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

• V. Life for Ethnic Nepalis in Bhutan

• No Objection Certificates

• Education

• Compulsory labor

• Land ownership

• Democratization

• VI. The Need for a Durable Solution

• VII. Repatriation

• The Right to Return to One’s Own Country

• Right to a Nationality

• Prospects for Repatriation

• VIII. Resettlement

• Lack of Information

• IX. Local Integration

• X. Divergent Views, Rising Tensions

• Opponents of Resettlement

• Threats and Intimidation

• XI. The Right to Free Expression and the Need for Information

• XII. Unregistered Refugees in Nepal and India

• Unregistered Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal

• Unregistered Bhutanese Refugees in India

• XIII. Conclusion

• Methodology

• Acknowledgements

 

May 2007   Volume 19, No. 7(C)