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At the United Nations

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Human Rights Council

ICT statements on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights at the regular sessions of the UN Human Rights Council since 2020

  • UNHRC51
    • Slavery
    • Arbitrary detentions
    • Item 4
  • UNHRC50
    • Right to education
    • Freedom of opinion and expression
    • Human rights and climate change
  • UNHRC49
    • Oral update of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
    • Human Rights Defenders
    • Torture
    • Item 4
  • UNHRC48
    • Arbitrary detentions
    • Enforced disappearances
    • Development
    • Item 4
  • UNHRC47
    • Education
    • Olympics
  • UNHRC46
    • Torture
    • Poverty Alleviation
    • Item 4
  • UNHRC45
    • Arbitrary detentions
    • Enforced disappearances
    • Development
    • Item 4
  • UNHRC44
    • Peaceful assembly and association
    • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • UNHRC43
    • Minority issues
    • Cultural rights
    • Item 4

Universal Periodic Review

  • ICT-FIDH joint submission for Nepal’s Third UPR (2021)
  • ICT-FIDH joint submission for China’s Third UPR (2018)
  • ICT-FIDH joint submission for Nepal’s Second UPR (2015)
  • ICT-FIDH joint submission for China’s Second UPR (2013)

Special Procedures

  • Cultural rights and sustainable development in Tibet – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights (April 2022)
  • Discrimination, segregation and the right to adequate housing – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing (November 2021)
  • Rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to advance climate justice – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association (May 2021)
  • The long term detention of human rights defenders – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (March 2021)
  • Right to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in Tibet – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association (January 2021)
  • Cultural rights and climate change – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights (May 2020)
  • Minority language education in Tibet – ICT submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (October 2019)

Treaty Bodies

  • ICT submission for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Review of China (August 2018)

UN Forum on Minority issues

  • ICT statement at the 14th Forum on Minority Issues (December 2021)
  • ICT statement at the 12th Forum on Minority Issues (November 2019)

UN related press releases and statements

  • ICT denounces Tibet arbitrary arrests, calls for independent investigation (September 19, 2022)
  • Tibet labor transfer programs discussed at UN Human Rights Council (September 15, 2022)
  • UN experts’ call for special session on China human rights must include Tibet (September 7, 2022)
  • ICT welcomes UN report on China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang (September 1, 2022)
  • In the spotlight again: China and Tibet at UN Human Rights Council (June 28, 2022)
  • UN experts renew call on China for unhindered access by independent human rights experts (June 10, 2022)
  • UN Human Rights chief’s visit is China’s political victory (May 28, 2022)
  • ICT calls on UN high commissioner: “Raise Tibet loud and clear” (May 23, 2022)
  • Postpone trip to China, NGOs tell UN High Commissioner (May 6, 2022)
  • Mounting concerns over UN High Commissioner visit to China (April 28, 2022)
  • NGOs demand transparency and clear criteria ahead of UN High Commissioner’s visit to China (April 21, 2022)
  • Tibet at the 49th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: round-up (March 23, 2022)
  • UN human rights commissioner urged to speak up on Tibet—Chinese delegation intervenes (March 11, 2022)
  • ICT statement at 14th UN Forum on Minority Issues (December 7, 2021)
  • Human Rights Council urged to address the worsening human rights situation in Tibet (September 27, 2021)
  • UN Human Rights Council: Detention, disappearance and development in Tibet raised (September 21, 2021)
  • UN experts raise cases of detained and “disappeared” Tibetans (September 14, 2021)
  • ICT statement at UN Asia-Pacific Forum on Minority Issues (September 7, 2021)
  • Government denies rights of Tibetan refugees in UN review (July 8, 2021)
  • Beijing Olympics concerns raised at UN Human Rights Council (July 7, 2021)
  • UN Human Rights Council urged to respect Tibetans’ cultural rights in education (June 25, 2021)
  • UN Human Rights Council urged to ask China to allow an investigation into the coercive labor program in Tibet by independent human rights experts (March 15, 2021)
  • UN Human Rights Council urged to hold China accountable for the pattern of deaths of Tibetans after torture and mistreatment in detention (March 9, 2021)
  • China elected to UN Human Rights Council but suffers another setback as criticism grows (October 13, 2020)
  • UN experts write to China on Panchen Lama, reincarnation rules (August 4, 2020)
  • ICT welcomes unprecedented joint statement by UN experts on China (June 26, 2020)
  • UN human rights experts ask China to lift charges against Tibetan anti-corruption activist Anya Sengdra (May 19, 2020)
  • Blow for global human rights system – China appointed to important UN human rights panel (April 6, 2020)
  • UN human rights chief visit to China must include Tibet: ICT (February 27, 2020)
  • ICT calls on China to allow Tibetans to learn in their mother tongue at UN Forum on Minorities (December 3, 2019)
  • UN experts voice grave concerns about threats to Tibetans and Uyghurs from China’s “counter-terrorism” law (November 18, 2019)
  • UN urged to ask China to cease demolition of Tibetan Buddhist institute (September 18, 2019)
  • UN urged to pressure China over arbitrary detention of Tibetans (September 13, 2019)
  • UN asked to focus on disappeared Tibetans, in particular the 11th Panchen Lama (September 11, 2019)
  • Rights groups raise China’s systematic human rights violations in Tibet at UN Human Rights Council (July 3, 2019)
  • China’s response to UN rights review blatantly ignores its persecution of Tibetans (March 14, 2019)
  • UN Human Rights Council urged to pass resolution on China’s human rights violations (January 30, 2019)
  • China’s false denials at UN human rights council must be challenged, ICT says (November 6, 2018)
  • As China faces critical UN review, its appalling human rights record must not become the new normal (November 5, 2018)
  • UN human rights expert on poverty criticizes policies on “ethnic minorities”, and government obstruction to meaningful access to civil society in China (May 4, 2017)
  • Unprecedented diplomatic action in Geneva on China’s human rights record (March 17, 2016)
  • Historic joint statement at the UN Human Rights Council condemns China’s human rights record (March 11, 2016)
  • UN Urged to Ensure Freedom of Expression and Opinion in Tibet (June 22, 2015)
  • UN Human Rights Council Side Event “Lockdown in Tibet” (June 8, 2015)
  • ICT highlights Enforced Disappearances in Tibet at the 27th Human Rights Council Session (September 9, 2014)
  • China fails to shut down scrutiny of its violations as UN Council adopts China rights report (March 21, 2014)
  • China rejects most UPR recommendations on Tibet but agrees to High Commissioner’s visit to Tibet (March 17, 2014)
  • ICT meets with the UN High Commissioner’s Office (February 27, 2014)
  • ICT highlights Tibet’s lack of civil society on the eve of China’s rights review in Geneva (October 22, 2013)
  • Statements on China and Tibet at 22nd Human Rights Council Session (April 22, 2013)
  • UN Rights Commissioner makes strong first statement on Tibet (November 2, 2012)
  • Europe, US, Canada raise Tibet at UN Human Rights Council; call on China to grant rights and access to outside observers (June 28, 2012)
  • Governments confront China at UN Human Rights Council (March 14, 2012)
  • UN Human Rights Council publishes written statement on discrimination in Tibet (February 28, 2012)
  • ICT delivers UN statement on illegal killings by security forces in Tibet (June 5, 2008)
  • Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (January 15, 2008)

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