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EU Statement at the 57th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council – Item 4 – Human Rights situation that require the Council’s attention
24 September 2024

Tibetans and Tibet supporters took the stage at a United Nations Human Rights Council side event in Geneva yesterday, testifying about China’s suppression of the Tibetan language and the recent school closures in Tibet.

In the latest escalation of China’s efforts to control the narrative on Tibet, a new propaganda center called the “Tibet International Communication Center” was launched in Lhasa on 2 September 2024.

A powerful letter published today by 13 independent UN Human Rights Special Procedures expressed “deep concern” regarding the Chinese government plans to build the Kamtok dam in the Tibetan region of Derge.

The International Campaign for Tibet hosted a special panel at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden this month, on the threat to Tibet’s water and Tibet’s potential to unlocking regional peace and prosperity.

The Chinese government has demolished the 135-year-old Atsok Monastery in northern Tibet to make way for the construction of a hydroelectric dam. The monastery had previously enjoyed protected status as a cultural heritage site, but this status was unilaterally revoked by Chinese authorities in order to push the demolition forward.

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) welcomes a petition to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calling for an end to China’s forced assimilation policies in Tibet. In the petition 100 Tibetan professors, scientists and doctoral students in exile express their deep concern about the Chinese government’s systematic closure of Tibetan monastic and public schools.

Amid an ongoing government campaign to close private Tibetan schools, the Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational School in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, was shut down on 12 July 2024.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chair of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning, visited the Tibetan regions of Amdo and Kham last month, where they called for the full implementation of the Party’s policy to Sinify Tibetan Buddhism – essentially, converting it into a tool of the Chinese state.

The people of Derge, a town in eastern Tibet, have risen up in opposition to the planned Kamtok (Ch: Gangtuo) hydropower project in their region. China’s move to build the dam despite local opposition is indicative of the Chinese government’s willingness to disregard negative impacts on Tibetan communities upstream in order to provide energy to […]