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Vulnerable refugees from Bhutan spearhead resettlement from Nepal
10 Mar 2008 Small numbers of vulnerable refugees from Bhutan are set to leave their eastern Nepal camps for a fresh start overseas. Larger numbers are expected to follow in March. -
Fire razes refugee camp in Nepal; aid rushed to the homeless
3 Mar 2008 A fire swept through the Goldhap camp in eastern Nepal at the weekend leaving thousands of refugees from Bhutan homeless and around 100 injured. -
Refugees from Bhutan poised for new start
1 Feb 2008 The first groups of refugees from Bhutan could be resettled within months, thanks to Nepal's decision to grant them exit permits. -
Refugees from Bhutan get first ID cards in Nepal's camps
10 Dec 2007 The government of Nepal and UNHCR have started to distribute identity cards to the refugees from Bhutan living in seven camps in eastern Nepal in a move to improve protection and assistance for some 108,000 registered refugees. -
UNHCR protection chief meets resettled refugees in Canada
15 Nov 2007 Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller learns about the challenges of integration in Canada. -
UNHCR rushes supplies to fire-gutted camp in Nepal
12 Nov 2007 Some 400 refugees from Bhutan have received emergency assistance after a fire, believed to have started by accident, swept through Beldangi 1 camp in eastern Nepal. -
Bhutan's refugees to be resettled from Nepal within months
6 Nov 2007 The long-awaited resettlement of refugees from Bhutan will soon start, with the first group of accepted refugees set to leave Nepal's camps early next year. -
Q&A: Introducing refugees from Bhutan to the world
26 Oct 2007 A young American filmmaker who grew up in Nepal has returned to document refugees from Bhutan, in a film that sweeps from the refugee camps of the Nepalese countryside to New York City. -
Dutch children learn to cook dessert on solar cookers used in Nepal camps
5 Jul 2007 Dutch schoolchildren make pancakes in solar cookers used by refugees in Nepal. The cookery class on the rooftop terrace of Amsterdam's Nemo Science Museum was intended to raise awareness about the lives of refugees and the environmental problems they face.