Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Bhutan)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• 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 ARM

• King; Lhengye Shungtsog (Council of Ministers); Lodoi Tsokde (Royal Advisory Council)

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Bhutan (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Bhutan (Bhutan Tourism Corporation Limited)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bhutan (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Bhutan (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Bhutan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Bhutan () September 1992
• Portals to the World: Bhutan ()
• 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)