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Geneva: In recognition of the 72nd Human Rights Day, a virtual talk on the topic “China’s Human Rights Violations and Expansionist Agenda” will be held on 8 December 2020 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm IST. The talk is jointly organized by Tibet Bureau Geneva, the Tibetan Community of Italy and Italia Tibet Association. The talk will be broadcasted live via TibetTV. More

Geneva: The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has raised concerns about the Chinese government replacing Tibetan with Chinese language as the medium of instruction in schools and persecution of the Tibetan language rights advocates in its recent communication to the Chinese government dated 24 November 2020. More

Dharamshala: Domestic violence is an issue tackled globally by governments through stringent legislation but until four years ago, there were no laws protecting women in China against domestic violence. There are still no laws prohibiting marital rape or sexual harassment. More

Washington DC: The United States State Department's Office of Policy Planning released a 72-page report, titled “The Elements of the China Challenge,” for how the US has responded and should respond to China’s ongoing authoritarianism. The report devotes space to the discussion of repression of ethnic and religious minorities in China. More

Dharamshala: When China opened itself to the international community in the 1970s, it ushered a hope that the Chinese Communist Party would join the rest to fulfil the common values by fostering economic interdependence. This view was also bolstered with China coming forward to follow the international norms of humanity by signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDR) in 1971. More

Geneva: China is one of the world's worst violators of freedom of religion and belief. Even though the Chinese government recognizes five religious groups namely Buddhists, Muslims, Taoists, Catholics, and Protestants under the umbrella of “Patriotic Religious Associations,” it continues to meddle with and control their religious beliefs and traditions. More

Geneva: Switzerland’s State Secretary Krystyna Marty held political dialogue via videoconference with China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang on 9 November 2020. The talk focused on economic relations, human rights situation in China as well as Covid-19 pandemic situation in a bid to foster “sustainable relations” between the two countries as noted in the press release. More

Geneva: China is home to one of the largest populations of religious prisoners. Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has pushed to sinicize all religion and to adapt them to the doctrines of the atheist party through a set of stringent policies. More

Geneva: The third edition of the Geneva Forum 2020 is going to be held virtually this year from 9 to 13 November 2020, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 infections and for the safety of the speakers as well as participants. In this regard, the Tibet Bureau Geneva has rolled out the Geneva Forum website which gives all the information about the Geneva Forum. More

Dharamshala: Lhundrub Dakpa, a popular Tibetan singer from Kham Driru in Nagchu has been sentenced by Chinese authorities to six years in prison for singing songs criticising China’s repressive policies in Tibet. More

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