Given the current situation in Nepal, UNHCR believes that resettlement opportunities for some Bhutanese refugees who have been in the country for the last 15 years, should now be seized. Some 105,000 ...

UNHCR and its partners are laying the groundwork for the large-scale resettlement of refugees from Bhutan living in Nepal's camps by kicking off a mass information campaign to help them make an ...

Between 2007 and 2016, the UNHCR facilitated the resettlement of over 113,500 Bhutanese refugees from camps in eastern Nepal to eight countries, including the United States and Australia.

We believe that it will be wrong for UNHCR to stop assisting Bhutanese refugees remaining in Nepal. Despite 16 rounds of bilateral talks between Nepal and Bhutan that last nearly 20 years, Thimphu ...

More than 60,000 refugees originally signed up, while the rest said they preferred to wait in camps or try to return to Bhutan. The first refugees began leaving Nepal in November 2007 and they ...

The US government had considered the UNHCR-registered Bhutanese refugees who were identified as in need of resettlement, and had expressed interest prior to June 30, 2014, eligible for processing ...

More than 5,000 refugees have left their camps in Nepal to resettle in different countries this year, in one of the UN refugee agency's most promising resettlement programmes. | World News ...

A teenage girl in a long skirt and bright red top spins to a Nepali folk song over a crackly speaker. Her thick black braid trails her as she whips and turns. It’s Teacher’s Day at Beldangi refugee ...

The increasing threats of violence and prosecution in Bhutan has led thousands of ethnic minority Nepali-speaking people to flee their country to Nepal in the early 1990s. Since then, Nepal has hosted ...

We believe that it will be wrong for UNHCR to stop assisting Bhutanese refugees remaining in Nepal. Despite 16 rounds of bilateral talks between Nepal and Bhutan that last nearly 20 years, Thimphu ...