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Tibetan rights advocates on school closures in Tibet at UN Human Rights Council
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.
China launches new propaganda center in Lhasa
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.
UN human rights experts deeply concerned over repression of dam protests and Chinese hydropower policies in Tibet
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.
International Campaign for Tibet hosts panel at World Water Week 2024
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.
China Misuses Law to demolish historic Atsok Monastery for dam construction
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.
Petition by 100 Tibetan scholars to UN High Commissioner calls for an end to school closures and cultural assimilation policies in Tibet
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.
Chinese authorities force closure of popular Tibetan school
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.
China’s top leaders visit Tibet, seeking to assimilate Tibet’s religion and children
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.
Taming the Drichu: China’s Derge Dam Threatens Tibetan Culture and Communities
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 […]
As UPR concludes, UN Human Rights Council voices clear criticism of China’s abuses in Tibet
The United Nations Human Rights Council has once again issued substantive criticism of Beijing’s systematic human rights violations against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and Chinese. This evaluation of China’s human rights record came during China’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which takes place every four and a half years and whose final report was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council today.