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19th EU-China Summit: European Parliamentarians and NGOs call on President Tusk to raise the issue of Tibet
On the eve of an important Summit in Brussels on June 2, the European Union is being urged by European Parliamentarians and a coalition of NGOs, including the International Campaign for Tibet, to raise urgent concerns on human rights with China.
The EU urgently needs to review its Human Rights Dialogue with China
The EU’s well-meaning declarations on human rights in China must be followed up by a regular, high-level dialogue with Beijing, said a cross-party group of MEPs in an oped published by Euractiv on 29 May 2017.
19th EU-China Summit – Protest at Schuman Roundabout on 2 June
On 2 June, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will be in Brussels to take part to the 19th EU-China Summit. On this occasion,the Tibetan Community in Belgium, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, FIDH and the International Campaign for Tibet are organising a protest to call on the EU to take a stand on the deteriorating human rights situation in China.
ICT writes to countries attending China’s Belt and Road Forum not to put trade before human rights issues
The International Campaign for Tibet has written to governments in Europe that are sending delegates to China’s first Belt & Road Forum, to call on them not to put trade before human rights.
ICT congratulates French President-elect Emmanuel Macron
The International Campaign for Tibet congratulates Mr. Emmanuel Macron for being successfully elected as the new French President.
UN human rights expert on poverty criticizes policies on “ethnic minorities”, and government obstruction to meaningful access to civil society in China
A United Nations human rights expert on poverty has criticized the Chinese government for exposing “ethnic minorities in China” to serious human rights challenges.
Tibet Brief – Edition 58
In this edition: New ICT Report: Shadow of dust across the sun: How tourism is used to counter Tibetan cultural resilience; First cases of Tibetan self-immolations in 2017; China and Tibet at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council; US-China Presidential Summit; 2017 International Tibet Lobby Days; Tibet Friendship Parliamentary Group Formed in Sweden (…)
EU Statement at UNHRC34: Human Rights situation that require the Council’s attention
EU Statement at the 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights CouncilItem 4 – Human Rights situation that require the Council’s attention14 March 2017 (…) In China, while acknowledging the progress made on a number of areas of human development, including the elimination of poverty, the EU continues to be concerned about the arrest, […]
Shadow of dust across the sun: how tourism is used to counter Tibetan cultural resilience
A new report by ICT, ‘Shadow of Dust across the Sun’, reveals how the demolitions and expulsions at Larung Gar and Yachen Gar in the past six months are part of an unfolding political strategy involving more aggressive measures in order to curb and manage the growing influence and number of monks and nuns at these important monastic centers of study and Buddhist ethics in eastern Tibet, the largest such institutes in the world.
Freedom House Report: The Battle for China’s Spirit Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping
On 28 February 2017, Freedom House published a new report “The battle for China’s spirit”, which examines the evolution of the Communist Party’s policies of religious control and citizens’ responses to them since November 2012, in the first comprehensive analysis of its kind.