DIIR Kalon speaks at International Women’s Day event in Paris

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Kalon Dicki Chhoyang (c) speaking at the International Women's Day event. Also seen in the picture are Mr Patrick Bloche and Ms Daniele Hoffman — Kalon Dicki Chhoyang (c) speaking at the International Women’s Day event. Also seen in the picture are Mr Patrick Bloche and Ms Daniele Hoffman

PARIS: Kalon Dicki Chhoyang, responsible for the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration who is on a three-day official visit to France was a keynote speaker at an event in Paris marking International Women’s Day on 8 March.

Over 200 people packed the community hall in the Town Hall of the 11th District of Paris to hear Kalon Dicki Chhoyang, who spoke on “Tibetan Women and Resistance.”

View of members of the audience during the event in Paris marking International Women's Day (March 8) — View of members of the audience during the event in Paris marking International Women’s Day (March 8)

Mr. Patrick Bloche, Mayor and Deputy in the French lower house greeted Kalon Dicki Chhoyang and shared information about the initiatives of the French Parliamentary Tibet Group, of which he is the Vice President. The Mayor was joined by his colleague in the parliament Madam Daniele Hoffman-Rispal.

At the conference, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang underscored the deteriorating situation inside Tibet with 107 known cases of self-immolations by Tibetans. She said that the self-immolations are symptoms of failed policies of the People’s Republic of China in Tibetan areas.

During her stay in Paris, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang granted interviews to both local print and broadcast media, namely TV5 Monde and Radio France.

She will also be meeting representatives of French Tibet support groups, before leaving for Brussels to join in European Solidarity Rally for Tibet on the occasion of 54th Tibetan National Uprising Day of 10 March.