December, 2017: Another busy month for the Dalai Lama
By Minoru Nakano / December 13, 2017
His Holiness maintains his busy schedule until the end of 2017 – from a meeting with the former United States President to embarking on a 20-day tour around South India. The Tibetan spiritual leader started off the month by featuring in a New York Times article, Our future is very read more →
Tibetans Around the Globe Celebrate Nobel Peace Prize Day
By Tenzin Samten / December 13, 2017
Tibetans all over the world gathered to celebrate on December 10, as on that day in 1989 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to promote human values, peace and compassion in the world. Hundreds of Tibetans read more →
International Human Rights Day: Tibetans call for support
By Tenzin Samten / December 11, 2017
December 10 is celebrated as International Human Rights Day across the world and to mark the day Tibetans campaigned to raise the issue of the ongoing human rights violation inside Tibet by the Chinese regime. The Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) released a six-minute read more →
Richard Gere Calls for Support for Tibet
By Dorji Kyi / December 10, 2017
The renowned Hollywood actor Richard Gere, Chair of the International Campaign for Tibet, testified at a United States Congressional hearing on US Tibet policy in Washington, DC on December 6. He spoke about the Tibetan monk,Tenga, who self-immolated last month. He went on to outline the urgent need to look read more →
Penpa Tsering Refutes the Kashag’s Allegations
By Lodoe Gyatso / December 8, 2017
Penpa Tsering, the former Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in exile and Representative of the Dalai Lama in North America, has responded to the Kashag (Tibetan Cabinet) charges against him following his sudden termination last month from the post of Representative. His rebuttal was contained in a 97-page document contesting read more →
A Meeting Between Friends
By Charlotte Wigram Evans / December 5, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Barack Obama met for the sixth time, reaffirming vows of friendship and aspirations for world peace “You are young, you can do a lot,” were but a few of the poignant words spoken by His Holiness the Dalai lama to former United States president read more →
Canada Turns the Spotlight on Tibet’s Political Prisoners
By Lobsang Tsering and Mary Trewartha / December 4, 2017
The Government of Canada has this month requested China to allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief to visit Tibet’s missing Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who is being held in detention in China. This request read more →
NGOs in Action
By Lodoe Gyatso / December 2, 2017
The recent publication of the report 30 Years of Resistance: The Legacy of the 1987 Lhasa Protests by Tibet Watch and the comments of the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) on new regulations issued by China, bring a spotlight to the work of the many NGOs (non-government organisations) around the read more →
Improving Our Water Quality
By Simon Cavendish, Marvin Westerveld and Amelia Rozelle / November 30, 2017
Access to water is precious. And its quality is just as important as its quantity. Depending on water and waste treatment, we can either have a “healthy” or an “unhealthy” stream. Water from streams is usually treated to guarantee that it is safe “clean water” [Figure 1]. Unsafe drinking water read more →
Tibetan Writer’s Harassment
By Mary Trewartha / November 27, 2017
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has published a report about the plight of Jamyang Kyi, 52, a prominent writer living in Tibet who is known for her writings on women and social issues, as well as being a popular singer and a former journalist. She wrote read more →