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The International Campaign for Tibet actively engaged in the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where it highlighted ongoing human rights violations in Tibet and raised concerns regarding China’s assimilationist policies targeting Tibetan identity, language and culture.
The International Campaign for Tibet welcomes the statement released today by independent UN experts expressing their deep concern about ongoing allegations of state-organized forced labor in China and Tibet.
At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), held in Geneva from 8 September to 8 October 2025, the situation in Tibet was a focal point of concern among governments and civil society organizations commenting on China’s human rights record.
The International Campaign for Tibet strongly welcomes the formal “Communication” made public over the weekend by United Nations special rapporteurs and working groups to the Chinese government addressing Beijing’s interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama and the enforced disappearance of Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.
The International Campaign for Tibet on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, actively participated in the 59th session of the UN Huùan Rights Council in Geneva, highlighting the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet through multiple avenues, including oral statements and a public side event.
At a high-level side event during the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council on 27 June, international experts issued urgent warnings about the growing threat to religious freedom and the cultural identity of Tibetans due to the Chinese government’s interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama.
Multiple UN Special Rapporteur made public a joint communication to the Chinese government related to the summoning and interrogation of environmental human rights defender Tsongon Tsering and his subsequent detention.
During the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Tibetan rights advocates vocally raised the systematic rights violations of the Chinese Communist Party in Tibet.
ICT echoes criticism by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, regarding the human rights situation in Tibet. In his Global Update before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today, Türk expressed that he is “concerned about the impact of education policy and the restriction of freedom of expression and religion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.”
The International Campaign for Tibet welcomes a statement by several UN human rights experts, whose comments included a discussion of the cases of nine missing Tibetans.