Tibet

  • Tibet Bureau Geneva urges on China to address Tibetans’ fundamental issues

    Tibet Bureau Geneva urges on China to address Tibetans’ fundamental issues

    At the 14th Session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva, the Tibet Bureau urged China to address Tibetans’ underlying grievances by respecting Tibetan people’s historical, social, and cultural roots. Tibetan people are suffering the results of China’s imposition of social structural and demographic change, said Advocacy Officer Kalden Tsomo, speaking at the…

  • Sikyong expresses gratitude to NBA player Enes Kanter for his support of the Tibetan freedom movement.

    Sikyong expresses gratitude to NBA player Enes Kanter for his support of the Tibetan freedom movement.

    In an official letter dated November 23, 2021, Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration congratulated NBA player Enes Kanter for expressing his solidarity with the Tibetan people inside Tibet under Chinese authority.

  • TCHRD introduces a new search engine that decodes CCP jargon.

    TCHRD introduces a new search engine that decodes CCP jargon.

    We are all influenced by China’s rise, terrified by threatening language, and unsure about our future. The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) on Thursday unveiled Decoding CCP, a new bilingual (English and Tibetan) website that strives to explain and decipher the meaning and connotations of important official jargon and slogans used by…

  • Hong Kong’s new film censorship law bans even cartoons over Tibet, Tiananmen Square

    Hong Kong’s new film censorship law bans even cartoons over Tibet, Tiananmen Square

    The Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong is missing an episode(episode 12 of season 16) of “The Simpsons” in which the cartoon American family makes witty humorous remarks regarding Tibet, the Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution. This raises concerns about the mainland China-style censorship in the city. 

  • Chinese officials forcing local Tibetans to part with their land without any compensation

    Chinese officials forcing local Tibetans to part with their land without any compensation

    According to an anonymous video, persecution is taking place in Tibet and the Uyghur belt in Xinjiang, and there is widespread misery among the people in these areas. The video brought attention to the illegal seizure of Tibetan territory. “The authorities are forcing the local Tibetans to part with their land without any compensation,” a…

  • Tibet Open For Talks But China Doesn’t Want It: Sikyong

    Tibet Open For Talks But China Doesn’t Want It: Sikyong

    Sikyong Penpa Tsering slammed the Chinese government for threatening Tibetans over the China-Tibet disputes, saying that they are open to a formal line of contact with the Chinese side and that this has been the Tibetian side’s continuous motive. He stated that settlements to the Tibet concerns can only be reached after a thorough discussion…

  • Destruction of Tibet’s ecosystem poses threat to humanity as a whole: Experts

    Destruction of Tibet’s ecosystem poses threat to humanity as a whole: Experts

    The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) and the Centre for Himalayan Asia Studies and Engagement (CHASE) from New Delhi co-hosted a webinar on November 27, 2021, in light of the recent conclusion of the international climate summit COP-26 in Glasgow. Experts speaking at the webinar “Climate Changes on the Third Pole – Tibet” agreed that China…

  • Now is the time for India to start making amends for its Tibet blunder.

    Now is the time for India to start making amends for its Tibet blunder.

    China continues to threaten India by bolstering its military presence along the Indian-Tibetan border, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure in India to prevent China from crossing the Line of Actual Control. Perhaps Modi is thinking along the same lines as Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950-51, deciding that India’s military choices against China are…

  • Tibet’s party members are prohibited from engaging in religious activities in China.

    Tibet’s party members are prohibited from engaging in religious activities in China.

    According to sources, China, which has been accused of restricting religious freedom in Tibet, has put a ban on religious activities on all party members and cadres in Tibet’s Amdo region. In October, Golog prefecture reported a similar prohibition, with a high number of informers ensuring that no Tibetan party members engaged in religious practices…

  • CCP uses parliamentarians to spread Beijing’s narrative on Tibet in Italy.

    CCP uses parliamentarians to spread Beijing’s narrative on Tibet in Italy.

    According to a recent report on CCP influence organizations and their operations in Italy, disseminating “new Tibet” is a primary area of focus for Beijing’s efforts to co-opt Italian lawmakers and politicians, among other things.