Tibetan Issues Raised at UN Forum
By Tenzin Samten / December 28, 2021
The issue of Tibet was raised at the fourteenth session of the United Nations Forum on the Minority Issues which took place in Geneva from December 2 to 3. Kalden Tsomo, the UN Advocacy Officer from the Tibet Bureau Geneva, represented the Tibet Bureau at the Forum,calling on China to read more →
His Holiness Teaches the Importance of Warm Heartedness
By Tenzin Samten / December 28, 2021
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans and Buddhists around the world, is now 86 years old and living in his exile home in Dharamshala, north India where he has been based since his escape from Tibet after China’s invasion of Tibet in 1959. He has been read more →
Tibetans in Nepal Denied Identity Cards
By Johannes Lins / December 24, 2021
More than 9,000 Tibetan refugees living in Nepal, along with 600 from other nations, are to be left with no valid ID. Nepal is looking at issuing refugee identification cards to the Bhutanese refugees living in the country only, according to a recent Home Ministry of Nepal proposal to the read more →
Ms Uzra Zeya Appointed as US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues
By Tenzin Samten / December 22, 2021
The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on December 20 that he has appointed Ms Uzra Zeya as the United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues; she is the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights – a position which traditionally doubles as the Special Coordinator. read more →
Imprisoned Tibetan Environmentalist in Critical Condition
By Tenzin Samten / December 21, 2021
Dhongye, a Tibetan man in 50s who was arrested by the Chinese authorities in 2018 on charges of “leaking state secrets”, is reported to be near death following injuries sustained during his prolonged torture while in prison, reports the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)’s Human Rights desk. He has been held read more →
Tibetan Buddhist Scholar and Writer Sentenced to 10 Years
By Tenzin Samten / December 16, 2021
Go Sherab Gyatso, 46, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholar and writer from Ngaba [Ch: Aba] was given a 10 year prison sentence by the Chinese authorities in a secret trail. According to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) also known as the Tibetan Government-in-exile, he was detained on October 26, 2020 read more →
Boycotting Beijing 2022
By Tenzin Samten / December 16, 2021
Major countries around the world are condemning China’s record of human rights abuses by diplomatically boycotting the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. A diplomatic boycott means that there will be no official delegation to the Games, but athletes from those countries will participate as planned. The issue has hit the read more →
Cracking China’s Propaganda Codes
By Johannes Lins / December 13, 2021
“Where Google Translate fails, Decoding CCP comes in ” says the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD)*, introducing their recently launched translation application. As machine translation can often not detect phrases as used by the Chinese government which could be regarded as allusive and vague, Decoding CCP analyses read more →
Tibetan Culture Annihilation
By Tenzin Samten / December 8, 2021
The Chinese government has ramped up their drive to demolish all traces of Tibetan culture and religion in Tibet, with the recent introduction of further strict governances targeting Tibetan institutions and monasteries. The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reports that many Tibetan-medium schools across the Tibetan traditional province of Kham read more →
INTERPOL Slammed for Electing Chinese Official to Executive Committee
By Mary Trewartha / December 1, 2021
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), the international cross-party group of legislators working towards reform on how democratic countries approach China, has issued a statement condemning INTERPOL, the international criminal police organisation which facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control, for electing Hu Binchen, a senior Chinese government official, to read more →