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Geneva: China has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council today, 13 October 2020 during the ongoing 75th General Assembly Session at the UN headquarters in New York. Even though the results were quite expected, the elections, however, saw reduced support to China in comparison to the earlier elections. More

Dharamshala: The US-based The International Campaign for Tibet came out with a 28-page report “The ‘Evil’ Trial of 10 Sangchu Tibetans” exposing a sham “anti-gang” trial of ten Tibetans from Tibet’s traditional Amdo region in June this year. FreeTibet, a UK-based rights group filed a brief report on the same in July. More

Tokyo: As China celebrated the 70th founding of the People’s Republic of China yesterday, Global Resist China movement was organized in Tokyo to protest against the Chinese government’s policy to suppress basic human rights and annihilate the culture and language of Tibetans, Southern Mongolians and Uyghurs. More

Geneva: On 25 September 2020, at the ongoing 45th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the issue of coercive “labour trainings” of over half a million Tibetans in Tibet by China was raised by Thinlay Chukki, CTA’s Special Appointee for Human Rights at Tibet Bureau Geneva. Speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples under the Council’s agenda item no. More

Dharamshala: A Delhi-based freelance journalist who wrote a series of fake, misleading articles targeting the institution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and CTA leadership in 2018 was arrested by Delhi police on charges of spying and acting as an agent of China. Rajeev Sharma was booked under the Indian Official Secrets Act (OSA) on Sept. More

Dharamshala: China’s growing belligerence in these COVID times has pushed governments into rethinking its foreign policy on China. At the core of the brewing tensions between India and China at the Indo-Tibet border lies the Tibet issue. More

by T.G. Arya Chinese President Xi Jinping has recently delivered a fiery long speech calling China to build an "impregnable fortress" to maintain stability in Tibet, protect national unity and educate the masses in the struggle against "separatists", at the two-day [28th and 29th Aug] 7th Tibet Work Forum attended by the senior Communist Party leaders in Beijing on Saturday. More

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay Speaks to NewsX Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay while speaking to NewsX exclusively warns India about China. Posted by TIBET TV on Friday, 14 August 2020 Dharamshala: On the eve of the 74th Indian Independence Day, CTA President Dr Lobsang Sangay appears on prime-time NewsX to greet the country on the historic occasion. More

Dharamshala: The Wuhan originated COVID-19 in China has radically disrupted global events including diplomatic calendars impacting significant international meetings to be held online. The first formal hearing on China of the Canadian House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations (CACN) held on Thursday, August 6, 2020, was one such anticipated events affected by the pandemic. More

Dharamshala: MP Tim Loughton of the UK Parliament and Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet (APPGT) called for the immediate release of Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima on the 25th anniversary of his abduction and enforced disappearance by Chinse government on May 17, 1995. More

Dharamshala: Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama turns 31 today. Held captive for the last 25 years by the Chinese authorities, Panchen Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’s birthday will be marked in grief and concerns, just as each year. More

Geneva: 82 Organizations and Associations predominantly from Central and Eastern Europe have submitted a joint petition for the cancellation of appointment of Mr Jiang Duan, Minister at the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China, to the Human Rights Council’s Consultative Group from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. More

In light of China’s increasing dominance and aggression at the United Nations, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) is appalled to learn of China’s appointment to the UN Human Rights Council’s influential Consultative Group, a panel comprising of only five nations. China will represent Asia-Pacific Group at the UNHRC panel from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. More

Dharamshala: The Information Secretary of Central Tibetan Administration said China has been sending its so-called “Tibetan delegation” overseas to promote propaganda on Tibet and to deter international criticism of its egregious human rights abuses inside Tibet. "China has been sending delegations abroad to promote its propaganda on Tibet. More

Dharamshala: Information Secretary of the Central Tibetan Administration, Mr Tsewang Gyalpo Arya on Tuesday decried a provision in the joint accord signed between China and Myanmar on 18 January that recognised Tibet along with Taiwan and Xinjiang (East Turkestan) as "inalienable parts of China". More

Bern: Expansion of trade relations by heightening its surveillance, China poses new challenges to International order said Kelsang Gyaltsen, former envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in a panel session jointly organized by Swiss-Tibetan Friendship Association and Society for Threatened Peoples, in Bern, Switzerland, on Thursday, 28 November. More

Dharamshala: A young Tibetan nomad from the nearby nomadic township of Meruma in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) county in Tibet’s traditional province of Amdo died on Tuesday after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule of Tibet and its hardline policies against the Tibetans. Yonten, aged around 24, set himself ablaze in the center of town nearby Meruma at around 4 pm local time on 26 November 2019. More

Dharamshala: Ever since 1969, when asked about his next reincarnation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has told the international media that it was a matter to be decided by the Tibetan people. As it stands now, it is important for the Tibetan people to enact a legitimate stand on the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation. More

DECLARATION GENEVA FORUM 2019 14-15 NOVEMBER 2019, GENEVA   We, the experts and witnesses at the 2019 Geneva Forum on “China’s High-Tech Repression and Freedom of Religion”, Express Our Grave Concern over the reports of high-tech systemic violations of human rights, including freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion or belief, freedom of movement and peaceful assembly, righ More

Geneva: The second day of the acclaimed Geneva Forum 2019 saw a panel of experts discussing Beijing export of surveillance technology. Moderator Thinley Chukki, Special Appointee for Human Rights explained China's misuse of technology against vulnerable people along with exporting these surveillance tools and technologies to other countries. More