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UN Experts Sound Alarm Over Widespread Forced Labour of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Other Minorities in China
Geneva - United Nations human rights experts have raised grave concerns over what they describe as a systematic, state-imposed regime of forced labour targeting Uyghurs, Tibetans, …
Read more →Candle March in Bodh Gaya as Tibetan Monks Raise Voice Against Chinese Atrocities
Bodh Gaya, Bihar – The sacred land of Bodh Gaya, revered as the seat of Buddha’s enlightenment, witnessed a powerful display of peace and resistance on Sunday. Hundreds…
Read more →Human Rights Groups Urge EU to Take Stronger Stand on China’s Abuses
Ahead of the upcoming EU-China summit, 17 human rights organizations have come together to make a powerful appeal: it’s time for the European Union to clearly condemn the Chi…
Read more →UN Expert Mary Lawlor Discloses Confidential Letter to China Regarding Nine Tibetan Environmental Defenders, Letter Now Made Public
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, has made a confidential letter addressed to China concerning the plight of nine Tibetan environmental defenders public…
Read more →EU Raises Dire Situation in Tibet and Xinjiang at UN Human Rights Council Session
During the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Union (EU) took a strong stance by addressing the "dire situation" in Tibet and Xinjiang,…
Read more →Explained: Thermo Fisher Helping China Steal Mass DNA of Tibetans in Tibet
A worldwide campaign has been organized by a coalition of Tibetan activist groups to once again bring attention to the involvement of Thermo Fisher Scientific, a company based in M…
Read more →Germany voices concern over human rights violations in Tibet and calls on China to end compulsory boarding schools and forced relocations
The Federal government of Germany has expressed concern over the "increasingly deteriorating" situation in Tibet and has voiced its support for the UN experts' call t…
Read more →US Senators Introduce Transnational Repression Policy Act to Combat Global Human Rights Abuses
Source: Stockholm Center for Freedom In a move to combat transnational repression and protect human rights around the world, four members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committ…
Read more →China’s boarding school system in Tibet a gross violation of human rights: Chairwoman of Human Rights Committee in German Parliament
China is attempting to systematically abolish the Tibetan minority through inhuman measures such as forced assimilation and re-education of up to a million children, noted Renata A…
Read more →UN experts urge China to stop Forced assimilation of Tibetan Childen in boarding school
United Nation experts warned that around a million Tibetan minority children are being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at cultural, religious, and linguistic assimila…
Read more →Speakers call for HRC members to push for meaningful investigation on the ground in Tibet
Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council 51st side event was held yesterday at Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of this event was to raise voices for Chinese government accountability a…
Read more →Sikyong greets new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk
Dharamshala: Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration wrote to new UN High Commissioner Volker Turk extending congratulations on the latter’s appointment l…
Read more →UN report accuses China for ‘crime against humanity’ in Xinjiang
The UN has accused China of "serious human rights violations" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province. China had urged the UN not to relea…
Read more →UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture : Tibetan political prisoners continue to be tortured in Chinese Jails
New Delhi : On 12 December 1997, by resolution 52/149 , the UN General Assembly proclaimed 26 June the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, with a vie…
Read more →50th session of UNHRC to begin today amidst calls for Chief's resignation
Geneva: The 50th session of the Human Rights Council starts here today with an update by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on global Human Rights develo…
Read more →The Xinjiang Police Files: New insights into the internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs
A new trove of hacked Chinese government files have revealed excruciating accounts of mass detention and torture of more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities…
Read more →UN visit falls short of addressing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang: Amnesty
Responding to the end of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s six-day visit to China, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes C…
Read more →China using sports to legitimatize human rights violations in Tibet
Oslo: During a gathering at New York-based non-profit Human Rights Foundation Oslo Freedom Forum, a Tibetan activist said that China is using sports to legitimatise its "Human…
Read more →As a list of detention camps emerges, rights groups press the UN ahead of a trip to Xinjiang.
On Friday, around 20 Uyghur, Tibetan, and international human rights organisations protested outside the United Nations compound in Geneva, urging the UN human rights chief to rele…
Read more →110th Anniversary of the 13th Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Declaration of Independence
Today - February 13, 2023 – marks the 110th anniversary of the historic Declaration of Independence; Tibet’s leader, the 13th Dalai Lama proclaimed in 1913 that his cou…
Read more →From Colonial Schools to DNA Collection: Time for a Fact-Finding Mission to Tibet
Tenzin Tseten and Lakshmi P Two key events that transpired last week have brought the attention of the world, albeit for a short time, on Tibet again. One when Michelle Bachelet, t…
Read more →Looking Back at the Outgoing UN Rights Chief’s Uncertain Tibet Legacy
By Tenzin Samphel and Lakshmi P Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and head of the office is set to step down after her term ends on August 31…
Read more →What Chinese Media Coverage of Michelle Bachelet’s China Visit Tells Us
The visit of the United Nations Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet to China was a golden chance to probe the human rights situation in areas like Xinjiang and Tibet and to hold it acco…
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