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Nepal issues exit permits for refugees from Bhutan
1 Feb 2008 -
Cautious return for Nepal's displaced people
28 Dec 2007 More than a year after a peace agreement ended the 10-year civil conflict in Nepal, tens of thousands of displaced Nepalese have returned home to rebuild their lives. UNHCR and other agencies are helping them. -
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. -
Street theatre helps spread HIV/AIDS awareness in Nepal
3 Dec 2007 The UN refugee agency is working on several new projects in Nepal aimed at spreading awareness about HIV and AIDS among conflict-affected people, sex workers and injecting drug users, including the use of street theatre. -
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. -
Nepal: Start of resettlement process for Bhutanese refugees
6 Nov 2007 -
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.