Tibetan Parliamentary Session Sets Budgets
By Casey Tait / March 29, 2019
The seventh session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament in Exile began in Dharamshala on March 19; the main agenda item was acceptance of the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) annual budget for 2019-2020. The bi-yearly, ten-day long discussions opened with a briefing of the actions accomplished in the six months since read more →
Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen Receives 2019 Courage Award
By Tenzin Samten / March 29, 2019
Dhondup Wangchen, a former Tibetan political prisoner and a filmmaker, has been awarded the prestigious 2019 international human rights awards from the Geneva Summit on March 26, 2019. The announcement was made by a coalition of 25 global human rights organisations. Just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Wangchen exposed life read more →
China Threatens to Reject a Dalai Lama Successor From India
By Nithin Thomas Prasad / March 26, 2019
China has said it would not support the successor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama if they were to be found in India as the religious leader has asserted, since it would not be in compliance with the state’s own laws, regulations and established religious principles. The Chinese government read more →
US Exposes China’s Severe Restrictions on Tibetans
By Ishan Sood / March 22, 2019
The United States State Department’s Human Rights Report for 2018 has affirmed that people of Tibet have been enduring discrimination and persecution under Chinese rule, including strict restrictions on their most basic and fundamental rights, and increased isolation from the outside world. According to the report released on March 13, read more →
Taiwan Calls for Dalai Lama Visit
By Tenzin Samten / March 22, 2019
A petition has been launched to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Taiwan this year urging the general public to make it happen. Taiwan’s New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Freddy Lim announced the initiative during the commemoration of the 60th Tibetan Uprising day, saying “this is the best way read more →
EU Demands Reciprocal Access to Tibet
By Tsering Wangdue / March 21, 2019
After the successful adoption of the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act by the United States in December 2018, European law makers have now called on their Parliaments for adoption of a similar Act. A group of eleven European parliamentarians and 25 parliamentarians from EU member countries have published an opinion read more →
China Under Scrutiny
By Ben Byrne / March 18, 2019
The 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) took place in Geneva between February 25 and March 22. The Council consists of 47 members elected yearly by the General Assembly for staggered three-year terms. Notable current members include China, under scrutiny for human rights practices, particularly in read more →
Uprising Day Remembered Around the World
By Casey Tait / March 18, 2019
March 10, 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day. Around the world, protests, publications and networks acknowledged the ongoing illegal occupation of Tibet by China. On March 10, 1959 Tibetans rose up against the Chinese occupation, attempting to liberate themselves from the Peoples Republic of China. The read more →
Nepal: Pressure on Tibetan Refugees
By Ishan Sood / March 13, 2019
Nepal has reportedly started to collect data on Tibetan refugees in an attempt to keep close tabs on their number and monitor any “Anti-China” behaviour. The news was reported on February 26, by the English Edition of Online Khabar, which claimed that the Nepali government had begun compiling details of read more →
5G Services Set Up in Tibet
By Nithin Thomas Prasad / March 13, 2019
China Mobile says that it has set up its first three 5G stations in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) with the help of Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, in order improve the communication infrastructure for the local population. However, this move on March 1 was seen by experts as more of read more →