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News · 12 Dec, 2025

EU Calls on China to End Interference in Dalai Lama Reincarnation Amid Rising Rights Concerns in Tibet

Marking International Human Rights Day on December 10, the Delegation of the European Union in China issued a clear statement reaffirming the EU commitment to human rights and fund…

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News · 5 Aug, 2025

Tibetans Vanish Without Trial: China’s Incommunicado Detention in Ngaba County Must End

Ngaba County in Sichuan Province (historical Amdo region of Tibet) continues to be a hotspot of repression, where Chinese authorities routinely detain Tibetans incommunicado &mdash…

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News · 29 July,2025

China Must Not Interfere in the Reincarnation of the Dalai Lama

As the 14th Dalai Lama turned 90 on 7 July 2025 , a group of 34 members of the European Parliament—including representatives from S&D, EPP, Greens, The Left, and Renew Eu…

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News · 15 Jan, 2025

China’s Forced Boarding Schools: The Systematic Erasure of Tibetan Cultural Identity

China’s ongoing policies in Tibet have long been criticized for undermining the region’s cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. A particularly alarming aspect of…

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News · 13 Jul, 2024

The Resolve Tibet Act and Its Implications for Tibet-China Relation

In a significant development enhancing U.S. support for Tibet, President Joe Biden signed into law the “Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act” (S. 138),…

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News · 07 Jun, 2024

No One is Safe under Authoritarian China: A New Report Finds

On April 15, 2024, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a coalition of Chinese and international human rights non-governmental organizations, released its annual report, If I Dis…

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News · 27 Dec

Controversy Surrounds Opening of Mao Zedong Statue Museum in Tibet

While the recent inauguration of the Chairman Mao Statue Museum in Tibet commemorated Mao Zedong's 130th birth anniversary, it has triggered controversy due to the revisionist …

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News · 13 Nov

Central Tibetan Administration Rejects China`s White Paper on Tibet

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, has vehemently rejected China's latest White Paper on Tibet, titled "CPC Policies on the Governa…

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News · 10 Nov

APEC Summit Agenda Should Address Climate Change, Rights-Respecting Rule: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders to press China's President Xi Jinping on human rights and to prioritize action on climat…

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News · 27 Sep

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,…

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News · 20 June

Canada’s Subcommittee Report Highlights Residential Boarding School System in Tibet

The Subcommittee on International Human Rights, a part of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, House of Commons, Canada, has released a signific…

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News · 23 May

The Farce called Xizang Development Forum

The 2023 Xizang Development Forum , organized by the Chinese government, is currently underway in Beijing. This high-level international forum reportedly aims to "shed light o…

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News · 22 Apr

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…

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News · 18 Mar

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…

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News · 17 Mar

UN report exposes China’s human rights violations and oppression against Tibetans

Source: UN report The United Nations Convention on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights have recently released th…

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News · 08 Feb

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…

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News · 07 Feb

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…

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News · 11 Jan

UN Experts convey "serious concern" regarding China's systematic assimilation policy in Tibet

Source: Tibet Bureau Geneva Geneva: In light of China's unrelenting oppression and systematic control over any expression of Tibetan cultural identity, a group of four UN human…

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News · 15 Dec

Democracies should be committed to pressing for an investigation into Chinese government crimes against humanity: Sophie Richardson

Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) held a hearing on two decades of Human Rights abuse and defense in China on December 13, 2022 with witnesses, Teng Biao, Hauser H…

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News · 12 Dec

Tibetans in Switzerland and Liechtenstein observe International Human Rights Day with Peace March and demonstration

On December 10, 2022, the Tibetan community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein organized a peace march and demonstration from the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the UN Human R…

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News · 07 Dec

CECC will hold hearing on Two Decades of Human Rights Abuse and Defense in China

Source: CECC Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) will hold hearing on two decades of Human Rights abuse and defense in China on December 13, 2022 with witnesses, Ten…

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News · 30 Nov 2022

India is the only country who held our hand when we needed it the most: TPiE Speaker

Source: Tibet.net Delhi: The Pan India Tibet Support Groups conference in Delhi, which lasted two days, came to a close yesterday with the adoption of numerous notable declarations…

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News · 04 Oct 2022

How China and its allies combine their resources to target dissidents abroad

Source: Radio Free Asia Authoritarian regimes are increasingly making use of regional cooperation organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to bolster each oth…

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News · 17 Sep 2022

Tibetans in exile Protest against China collecting DNA samples in Tibet through demonstration

Dharamshala: There has been a huge protest in Himachal Pradesh against the Chinese authorities for arbitrarily collecting DNA samples of children in Tibet. A demonstration has been…

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News · 10 August 2022

TCHRD Workshop teaches human rights and sustainable development to Tibetan youth

In order to better understand and promote human rights in their everyday life as well as in their own community, a group of Tibetan refugees who are pursuing higher education in va…

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News · 29 June 2022

ICT highlights Tibet’s colonial schools, climate change and lack of freedom of expression at UNHRC

Washington, DC: International Campaign for Tibet, on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, delivered three statements at the 50th session of United Nation Human Right…

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News · 30 May 2022

The China Nexus: Benedict Roger’s new book to hit stores in October

London: China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny, a book by human rights activist and Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch Ben…

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News · 30 May 2022

We are not satisfied with the outcomes of UN rights chief visit to Xinjiang, says Uyghurs

UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet has on May 28 defended her May 23-28 trip to Guangzhou in China and Urumqi and Kashgar in Chinese-ruled East Turkestan (Xinjiang) by saying …

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News · 14-May-22

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…

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News · 12-May-22

“Sucked our Marrow: Tibetan Language and Education Rights under Xi Jinping”: TCHRD releases new report

Dharamshala: The Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in collaboration with the Korea-based Asian Dignity Initiative released a joint report “Sucke…

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Report · 27 November 2023

We must continue our resistance, keep the Tibet issue alive: Tsering Passang on Tibetan Resistance Movement

Excerpts from our conversation with Tsering Passang la, Founder and Chair of Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM), London, England. 1. Could you share the …

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Report · 22 May 2023

I will keep speaking out about Tibet: Senator Rice

By Senator Janet Rice Imagine your country being violently invaded. Tens of thousands of people killed as they defended your country. Imagine your invaders telling you that your co…

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Report · 13 March 2023

We Choose to Resist

10 March 2023 marked the sixty-fourth anniversary of a pivotal moment in Tibet's history. Thousands of people from the Kham countryside to the streets of Lhasa mobilized to pro…

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Report · 23 December 2022

Chinese officials in Tibet who killed Tibetans and schemed the Galwan incident sanctioned

Introduction This International Human Rights Day, we Tibetans and all those who suffer and continue to suffer under the strict authoritarian Chinese Communist regime were given fur…

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Report · 17 October 2022

The Book Xi Jinping doesn’t want you to read: Benedict Rogers on his new book, Tibet issue and how Dalai Lama has influenced him

Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and writer. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, Senior Analyst for East Asia at the international human rights o…

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Report · 20 June 2022

On World Refugee Day, Don't Forget Tibet

By Benedict Rogers (Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch) As we mark World Refugee Day today, there are many parts of the world which require our attention. We think m…

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