Harrowing escape from Ukraine
“I never, ever, believed that anything like this could happen,” says Valia*. “Not for a second.” Just two weeks ago, the English teacher...
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What does ‘Defending Europe’ mean?
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Slovene government immediately proclaimed its readiness to receive thousands of Ukrainian refugees. As a citizen of Slovenia,...
Afghans in Nepal await resettlement
Ever since the most recent Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, they had been fleeing Kandahar and Kabul to Kathmandu in the hope of third-country asylum. ...
Japan award for Bhutan minister opposed
A consortium of dozens of Bhutan organisations all over the world have sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to withdraw...
Kathmandu's Little Kabul
When Mohammed Daoud fled Afghanistan in 2014, he did not know where he was headed. All he wanted was to keep his...
Family separation, Bhutan-style
As a student in Pittsburg in the United States, I began working with refugee populations four years ago. A wide-eyed sociology graduate...
No one to care for doctor who cared for everyone
In the early 1990s, Bhutan's royal regime forced out nearly 75,000 of its Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa people, and with the help of the...
Live together, work together
After two decades of living in bamboo sheds in camps in eastern Nepal, refugees from Bhutan resettled in the United States have...
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