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| Bhutanese-Australian to advocate in Geneva Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:20 PM PDT By Ichha Poudyel, Australia During two weeks in Geneva, the team from Australia will advocate on number refugees issues, including protracted refugees issues of Burmese refugees in Thai-Burma Border, Rohingya refugees from Burma in Bangladesh, and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. The advocacy will seek support from UN refugee convention signatory countries to continue supporting the refugee camps in Asia, and increase the facilities for security and safety.
According to Luitel, the issues of displaced people from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and other Asian countries will be discussed. The main issues in the discussion will include the reunion of family members who are separated for long periods of time from their relatives in the resettled countries and to effectively improve the process and procedure to prioritize resettlement of widows, single mother and women at risk. Although there are already the provisions to address such issues but they are not practiced effectively. Luitel has been selected by the Refugee Council of Australia to advocate in Geneva on behalf of the refugees from Asia. He has an extensive experience of working with refugees from Asia, Africa and Middle Eastern countries through a number of refugee programs including mushroom production and setting social enterprise in Melbourne. He is also a volunteer community worker in the not-for- profit Bhutanese Community in Australia Inc. for the people resettled in Victoria and Albury in NSW. (If you wish to send inputs or suggestions on the issues to be raised in Geneva, please send us email at editor@bhutannewsservice.com) |
| Ambassadors visit camps, registration to resume Posted: 01 Jun 2010 06:34 PM PDT Khudunabari, June 2: Ambassadors of core-group countries resettling the exiled Bhutanese visited Khudunabari and Sanischare camp yesterday. According to Khudunabari camp secretary Bhanu Dhungana, led by Norwegian Ambassador to Nepal, Thor Gislesen, who is the head of the core-group, the seven-member team included Ambassadors to Nepal from Denmark, the United States of America, Australia, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and a Canadian representative. They have expressed concerns that no repatriation initiatives are underway from our level, Dhungana told Bhutan News Service. People in Khudunabari submitted a petition asking the core-group countries to pressurize Bhutan for taking the citizens back home. “Until refugees dwell in camps, our supports for their livelihood and other needs will continue,” Dhungaga quoted the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, Scott H DeLisi, as saying. Meanwhile, the Chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nepal said the long-stranded process of verification for official registration of those Bhutanese who missed their chance earlier would begin very soon. “We are giving the last chance, and hope to resume the process at the earliest,” he said. |
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