Archive for December, 2009
Bhutan not good for doing business
December 07, 2009: Bhutan has performed bleak picture in the doing Ease of Business Report 2010 produced by the World Bank group. This is drop by two places compared to Doing Business 2009. Bhutan is ranked 126 in the survey of 183 countries to study the environment of ding business. Singapore tops the list while […]
A village within a camp
This is not a wonder, as you feel when reading this, but the fact is a village has been created within the Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal. And it is named as security village. Created on the lap of Armed Police Force base camp in Beldangi I, the security village turns to be a shelter […]
Bhutan faces tough questions in UPR session
December 04, 2009: With the presentation of its long awaited Human Rights Report, the UPR Session for Bhutan has formally ended this evening. The fact that might have surprised the RGOB delegates the Bhutanese refugees attended the government`s country report presentation for the first time in nearly two decades. But had the RGOB delegation suspected […]
RGoB swims naked across Universal Periodic Review: A review
Delegates of Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) exhibited the most infamous drama, ever in the history, yesterday in Geneva in front of the human rights watchers from all over the world. Stubborn with its ostrich behavior, an ostrich puts its head under sand when it has to hide while its body stands tall in desert; […]
Parliamentarians question developments, border talks
December 04, 2009: The parliamentarians raised series of question with the Minister for Works and Human Settlement Yeshey Zimba regarding the construction of roads, bridges and others during the question hour session on Friday’s sitting of National Assembly. The member from Lhamozinkha Hemant Gurung asked on the government’s plan to construct road between Gesarling and […]
BhutanInfo website launched
All you ever wanted to know about development goals just a click away 4 December, 2009 – With the launch of BhutanInfo yesterday, the first comprehensive information centre for Bhutan’s socio economic development goals at various levels is now only a click away. BhutanInfo, which is available in both desktop and online version at www.bhutanInfo.gov.bt, […]
Shadow Report on First UPHR: December 2009
http://www.apfanews.com/human-rights-and-justice-in-bhutan/
New book on Bhutan Human Rights
December 03, 2009: On the eve of the Bhutan government presenting its first human right report at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, a new book has been published exclusively incorporating major incidents and trends of human rights violations in Bhutan. Written by I. P. Adhikari, preisdent of Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) Bhutan, […]