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The statement follows the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday in July, and further calls on the Chinese government to provide updates ...
Tibetan community leader and environmental defender A-Nya Sengdra has had his seven year sentence extended, and there are ...
Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...
A Tibetan teacher named Gontse was arrested in Chongchi County by the police authorities on 14 August 2022 following his social media posts about the Covid-19 lockdown in the capital city of Lhasa.
On 23 June, Olympic Day, campaigners from all over the world took part in a Global Day of Action to protest against Beijing being the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics. In London, a coalition of ...
Tibet Watch has learned of the demolition of a third large Buddhist statue in Drago County. In November 2021, Chinese authorities of Drago County demolished a statue of eighth-century Indian Tantric ...
China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...
In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...
His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, is the longest-reigning (and longest-living) Dalai Lama and he may be the last. Revered as a ‘living God’, he has devoted his entire life to the pursuit of humanitarian ...
In anticipation of strong expressions of allegiance by Tibetans to their spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama ahead of his upcoming birthday in July, Chinese authorities have beefed up ...
The forced residential schooling of Tibetan children in China’s occupied Tibet is not just a matter of policy; it’s a heartbreaking reality for parents who must endure the separation from their ...