Tokyo: The Tokyo International Women’s Day Executive Committee organised International Women’s Day at Asakusa Hanakawado Park on 9 March 2024 in Tokyo. Women and their supporters from various communities, especially from the regions where women and human rights are undermined, participated in the event.
Tashi Yangzom, Secretary of the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan & East Asia, along with the members of the Tibetan community in Japan attended and spoke at the event. She thanked the organisers for inviting her and for the opportunity to speak. She applauded and congratulated all the brave women around the world who fought for women’s rights and gender equality.
Speaking on the gross human rights violations taking place in Tibet, she informed the gathering about China’s brutal assimilative policy where nearly one million Tibetan children were forcibly separated from their families and sent to Chinese colonial-style boarding schools. Sonam Dolkar Kobyashi read the Japanese version of the secretary’s speech.
Representatives from Myanmar, Cambodia, Ukraine, Iran, Belarus, Uyghur, Southern Mongolia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan spoke in turn about the injustice and human rights violations taking place in their respective regions. One common thing was the CCP’s hand in most of the repressed countries.
After the talk event, a peach march was conducted. The participants carrying national flags and placards walked from Hanakawado Park to the famous Sensoji temple of Asakusa.
–Filed by the Office of Tibet, Japan