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Bhutan
Kingdom of Bhutan / Druk-yul

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 Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: 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 Notes: 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)