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Nepal is home to 38,490 refugees officially recognized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Tibetan and Bhutanese refugees account for a large majority of Nepal’s refugee population.〔(UNHCR Nepal Country Operations Profile )〕 ==Refugees from Bhutan== (詳細はBhutanese refugees settled in seven U.N. supervised camps in eastern Nepal after being evicted from their homes in Bhutan when the government introduced a new law removing citizenship and civil rights due to ancestry.〔(Nepal: Bhutanese refugees find new life beyond the camps )〕 Without the right to work or own land in Nepal these refugees have been dependent on food aid from the United Nations.〔(U.N. resumes full food aid to Bhutan refugees in Nepal )〕 After several failed discussions aimed at repatriating the refugees to Bhutan or Nepal, the refugees are now beginning to be relocated to other international destinations with the help of the UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration. Since the start of its Bhutanese refugee resettlement initiative in 2007 the UNHCR has relocated over 20,000 refugees. The United States accommodated 17,612 of these refugees, with the rest moving to Australia, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, and The Netherlands.〔(Over 20,000 Bhutanese refugees resettled from Nepal )〕 The five Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal are: #Beldangi #Goldhap #Khudunabari #Sanischare #Timai 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Refugees in Nepal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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