The Students Union of Bhutan ('' Dzongkha:་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་ལུ་ཆགས་ཏིའབྲུག་ཡུལ་་'') is a political

human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

organization formed by

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

ese students, founded on March 23, 1988.Student Union of Bhutan
/ref> The purpose of the organisation is to increase the participation of students in

ese society, and to promote the ideals of democracy and freedom of individuals. The union was formed at a time for when it was unlawful to form any kind of association or union within the kingdom. The Students Union of Bhutan was forced to operate from outside of the country following government crackdowns and arrest of some of its activists in late 1989, The Students Union of Bhutan's origins grew from the ''Nepali Literary Society'', the organisation was considered informal and underground, and had a membership of 25 activists. Upon founding in 1988, the society distributed pamphlets and other printed articles highlighting state-sponsored discrimination and atrocities in regards to

Bhutanese refugees Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people. These refugees registered in refugee camps in eastern Nepal during the 1990s as Bhutanese citizens deported from Bhutan during the prote ...

. The union keeps close contact with other human rights organisations in Bhutan, and has established schools for refugees of Nepali origin residing in

. Since 1990, a monthly printed publication entitled ''Bhutan Focus'' has been distributed.

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