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High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an article about the importance of the preservation of Tibetan language by one of the most respected and influential Buddhist teachers in Tibet today, Khenpo Tsultrim Lodoe of the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Kham, Eastern Tibet.

The latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council opened in Geneva on September 8. The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has urged the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al-Hussein, to seek to visit China and Tibet during his tenure. In a letter to the new High Commissioner, ICT also pressed for an end to the increasingly widespread use of extra-judicial detentions and torture as a means of silencing Tibetans.

On July 31, 2014, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) published its new report “Acts of significant evil – The criminalisation of Tibetan self-immolations”. The report focuses on the intensified repression, which led to convictions, detentions and disappearances of Tibetans as a response to self-immolations by the Chinese Communist Party.

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) published the 44th edition of its Tibet Brief newsletter. The Tibet Brief is an ICT publication for policy-makers, providing concise information and perspectives on the political, economic and human rights situation in Tibet.

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) published the 43rd edition of its Tibet Brief newsletter. The Tibet Brief is an ICT publication for policy-makers, providing concise information and perspectives on the political, economic and human rights situation in Tibet.

On the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to Livorno, Italy, the President of the International Campaign for Tibet, Matteo Mecacci, will be one of the speakers in the debate “Tibet. A Wounded Civilization” (Tibet. Una civiltà ferita) on 14 June at 18:30 in Goldoni Theatre in Livorno, Italy.

Statement by Matteo Mecacci, President of the International Campaign for Tibet, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre to remember the events of June 4, 1989.

The pledge “2014 for Tibet” launched by The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has gained the support of 73 candidates to the European Parliament (EP). There are 41 re-running Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 32 candidates, who have promised to stand for the rights and freedoms of the people of Tibet during the upcoming mandate.

Today the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) sent an urgent appeal to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to challenge the legality of the recent law voted in the Spanish Parliament, limiting universal jurisdiction after Chinese pressure on Madrid over two lawsuits focusing on China’s leadership for its policies in Tibet, and which has led to arrest warrants being issued by the Spanish courts for several Chinese officials.

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) published its report “Has Life Here Always Been LIke This?”, revealing the extent of the militarization and repression inside Tibet that the Chinese government is attempting to cover up through propaganda and censorship.