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Bhutan

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Organized and Institutionalized Sexual Exploitation and Violence

In 1991, estimated 12,000 Bhutanese women refugees fled to western Nepal as a result of sexual violence perpetrated by the Bhutanese military. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic and Nadine Z. Mendelsohn