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Bhutan
Kingdom of Bhutan / Druk-yul
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- World Factbook: Bhutan - Government (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) No written constitution or bill of rights; uses 1953 Royal decree for the Constitution of the National Assembly; on 7 July 1998, a Royal edict was ratified giving the National Assembly additional powers
Executive
- King; Lhengye Shungtsog (Council of Ministers); Lodoi Tsokde (Royal Advisory Council)
Judicial
- COURTS: Supreme Court of Appeal (monarch); High Court
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Tshogdu (National Assembly)
- NATLEX: Bhutan (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Monitor: Bhutan (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Bhutan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- AsianLII: Bhutan (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- Bhutan (Bhutan Tourism Corporation Limited)
- World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bhutan (Germany Bundestag)
- World Legal Information Institute: Bhutan (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Bhutan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Bhutan (Library of Congress) September 1992
- Portals to the World: Bhutan (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Bhutan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Bhutan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Bhutan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Bhutan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bhutan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Governments on the WWW: Bhutan (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Bhutan (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Bhutan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Bhutan - information (IFLA)
- NEWS: BBC World South Asia; Kuensel, Bhutan's National Newspaper
- World Factbook: Bhutan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Bhutan (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Bhutan (Google); Bhutan (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies (Australian National University)
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Last Updated: 02/05/2009