Bhutan

• Annual Reports 139
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Concluding Observations 6
• Country News 19
• Country Profiles 1
• Country Reports 24
• Mission Reports 3
• Query Responses 9
• Regional Reports 4
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Sessional Reports 1
• States Parties Reports 13

• Access to procedures 3
• Adoption 2
• Animist 10
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 25
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 2
• Asylum-seekers 7
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 11
• Catholic 5
• Child labour 23
• Child prostitution 11
• Child soldiers 6
• Children's rights 49
• Children-at-risk 25
• Chin 1
• Christian 11
• Civil and political rights 1
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 4
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 6
• Corruption 12
• Criminal justice 6
• Death penalty 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 4
• Denial of nationality 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
• Domestic violence 6
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 19
• Emigrants 2
• Entry / Exit 1
• Equality before the law 3
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Exiles 6
• Expulsion 1
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Forced labour 23
• Forced marriage 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 22
• Freedom of assembly and association 33
• Freedom of conscience 3
• Freedom of expression 46
• Freedom of information 18
• Freedom of movement 24
• Freedom of religion 48
• Freedom of speech 19
• Gender discrimination 25
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 4
• Group / Prima facie determination 1
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Hindu 12
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
• Human Rights Council 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 27
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• Illegal entry 1
• Immigration Detention 5
• Impunity 1
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Indigenous persons 1
• Integration 3
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 3
• Jew 1
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Kashmiris 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Lhotshampas 5
• Mass exodus 2
• Mental health 2
• Migrants 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 16
• Minority rights 4
• Muslim 5
• Naturalization 2
• Nepalis 10
• Older persons 2
• Opposition 3
• Passports 2
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 11
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 6
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 16
• Police 8
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 7
• Political situation 3
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 11
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protestant 5
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Readmission 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee camps 17
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee seamen 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 3
• Refugees 46
• Regional instruments 1
• Registration 4
• Reintegration 3
• Religious discrimination 28
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 21
• Residence permits / Residency 2
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 1
• Right to a nationality 3
• Right to education 14
• Right to employment 6
• Right to family life 1
• Right to health 2
• Right to registration at birth 5
• Right to return 4
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 10
• Sale of children 2
• Security forces 6
• Security situation 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 20
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Shamanism 1
• Sindhis 1
• Social group discrimination 14
• State of emergency 1
• Statelessness 8
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Tamil 2
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 4
• Tibetan 4
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 39
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 6
• Urban refugees 3
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 5
• Withdrawal of nationality 1
• Women's rights 29
• Women-at-risk 16
• Work permits 2
• Zomi (Chin) 1

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• Amnesty International - Bhutan
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Bhutan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Bhutan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in New Delhi
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Bhutan
• National Portal of Bhutan
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Bhutan
• ReliefWeb - Bhutan
• UNHCR - Bhutan
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Bhutan
• United States Department of State - Bhutan
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Bhutan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Bhutan