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Geneva: Marking the 71st Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a two-day conference was organized in the United Nations Building at Palais des Nations Geneva on 9 and 10 December 2019 on the topic “Human Rights: Where are we at? Past and Future?” The Conference was co-sponsored by Permanent Missions of Finland, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Republic of Sierra Leone and Tim More

Dharamshala: The United Nations Human Rights Council was urged to express concern and request information about disappeared Tibetans, in particular, the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. More

Washington DC: Tibetan entrepreneur Tenzin Seldon was awarded the United Nations Innovative Disruptor Award at the UN NOVUS Summit in New York. The award ceremony was held on July 20, 2019, at the United Nations Headquarters. The award is presented to a community of innovators who have inspired and empowered others into innovative thinking and creative activism. More

Geneva: At the ongoing 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council signature petition calling for the immediate release of the 11th Panchen Lama and Jadrel Rinpoche was submitted to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 3rd July. Ven. More

-Filed by Tibet Bureau Geneva From the Universal Periodic Review to a scrutiny by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), China’s clampdown on the fundamental rights and freedoms of Tibetans was uncovered at the UN this past year. More

Geneva: Four days ahead of China’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a day-long forum titled “Forum on Human Rights Situation in Regions under the PRC,” jointly organized by Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), CTA and Office of Tibet, Geneva took place in Geneva. More

Geneva: The deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet under the control of Chinese government was yet again brought to the attention by the UN member states at the 39th UN Human Rights Council session concluded on Friday, this week. More

The United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has published its “concluding observations on the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of China”, adopted at its ninety-sixth session. Click here for the complete report. The report comes after China underwent a CERD review a few weeks ago on 10 and 13 August. More

GENEVA: The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic report of China on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. More

By Josh Rogin, The Washington Post If ethnic cleansing takes place in China and nobody is able to hear it, does it make a sound? That’s what millions of Muslims inside the People’s Republic are asking as they watch the Chinese government expand a network of internment camps and systematic human rights abuses designed to stamp out their peoples’ religion and culture. More

The UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) will convene its 96th session next week to review anti-discriminatory practices in China, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cuba, Latvia, Japan, Mauritius and Montenegro. More

    Geneva: In a press statement published on official website of Office of High Commissioner For Human Rights, a group of UN human rights experts have expressed themselves to be ‘gravely concerned’ and condemned China's sentencing of Tibetan linguistic rights' advocate, Tashi Wangchuk, for a five-year imprisonment, Expressing their sadness over the news of Tashi Wangchuk’s sentence, More

New Delhi: The 8th international conference of Human Rights Defense International, organized a special session on Tibet titled “Birth to Exile: The Story of Exile of the Dalai Lama”. The conference was organised on March 17,  the His Holiness the Dalai Lama left his homeland Tibet sixty years ago. The session revisited His Holiness’s journey and the current human rights situation in Tibet. More

Dharamshala: The United Nations Special Rapporteurs held their 24th annual meeting this year in June. In a span of six months, a number of Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups of the UN have raised some of the most pressing human rights issues in Tibet. More

Geneva: In the on-going 35th UN Human Rights Council session that begins earlier this month, countries including the US, UK and Germany expressed concern over the worrisome situation in China especially in Tibet and Xinjang. More

  “International Community and Human Rights Council must act on Tibet”: More than 1,000 Tibetans and supporters including speakers from 6 European countries participated in Grand Tibet Solidarity rally in Geneva. More

Dharamshala: In yet another fresh development for Tibetan advocacy at the United Nations, a group of United Nations human rights mandate holders today published a joint communication made to the Chinese government on the case of Tibetan human rights defenders: Tashi Wangchuk, language rights defender and Dolkar Lhamo and Nyima Lhamo, relatives of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche. More

  Dharamshala: The Chinese authorities have reportedly resumed demolition of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks and nuns of Larung Gar, one of the world’s largest centers of Buddhist learning in Tibet. The dismantling of the center, which began in July 2016, was temporarily suspended in December during winter. More