Tibetan Schools Closures Causing Concern for Orphans and Destitute Children
By Tenzin Samten / September 24, 2021
The Chinese authorities are closing Tibetan schools in their sinicisation drive and there is now grave concern over the effects of these closures on the local communities involved. The closures mean that local students no longer have access to Tibetan medium education and their cultural education suffers as does local read more →
Focus on Tibetan Schools in India
By Tenzin Samten & Mary Trewartha / September 24, 2021
The transfer of Tibetan schools which have in the past been administered by the Indian Government’s Ministry of Education (MoE) is nearly complete. The schools are being transferred to the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) Education Department, with six remaining and due for transfer shortly. Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the read more →
China Targets Preschool Children in its Sinicisation Drive
By Mary Trewartha / September 22, 2021
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TVHRD) has released a report saying that a Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) decree went into force this month to teach Mandarin Chinese to all preschool children. The report, published on September 17, goes on to say that this new edict is read more →
Tibetan Writer and Former Political Prisoner Dies
By Tenzin Samten / September 19, 2021
Ra Tsering Dhondup, a Tibetan writer and former political prisoner died at the age of 34 on September 15 in a hospital in Chengdu. His health has suffered during the eight years since his release from prison in 2013. He was arrested in February 2010 and imprisoned for three years read more →
Concern as the Situation in Dza Wonpo Township Continues to Worsen
By Tenzin Samten / September 17, 2021
Tibetans in Dza Wonpo township in Serschul county in Kardze prefecture continue to face mass surveillance: banned online activities include keeping picture of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and communicating with Tibetans and others in exile. Among the detainees following the recent mass arrests were members read more →
UN Experts Spotlight Detained and “Disappeared” Tibetans
By Mary Trewartha / September 16, 2021
United Nations representatives have called on the Chinese government to provide information on the whereabouts of two Tibetans who have apparently disappeared in detention, and to provide the legal grounds for their arrest and detention. The two detainees are Rinchen Tsultrim and Go Sherab Gyatso, both arrested during the past read more →
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaches on the Middle Way
By Tenzin Samten / September 15, 2021
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, has completed a two-day introduction to Buddhism online teaching based on Chandrakirti’s auto-commentary to his treatise Entering into the Middle Way. The teaching took place on September 8-9 at the request of a group of Buddhists from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Hong read more →
Sikyong’s First Months in Office
By Tenzin Samten / September 14, 2021
Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) which is also known as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, has outlined the main tasks performed by his administration since he assumed the role of Sikyong on May 27. He was speaking in an exclusive TV interview with Tibet TV. Speaking about read more →
40 Tibetan Victims of Enforced Disappearances Remembered
By Tenzin Samten / September 7, 2021
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD),based in Dharamshala, reports nearly 40 known cases of enforced disappearances inside Tibet in the last three years despite severe restrictions on information sharing. On August 30, the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, TCHR called on “China to immediately ratify read more →
Sikyong Urges Resolution to Parliamentary Impasse
By Tenzin Samten / September 6, 2021
Tibetans communities across the world celebrated the 61st anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day on September 2. At Dharamshala, the seat of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA),the day was observed with an official function in Sikyong hall. A video was screened showing His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking on the importance read more →