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National Endowment for Democracy’s 2024 Democracy Award

June 13, 2024, Washington DC

Lhadon Tethong and Dr. Gyal Lo accept the 2024 Democracy Award presented by the National Endowment for Democracy on behalf of Tibet Action Institute for documenting China’s vast system of colonial boarding schools in Tibet and holding those responsible to account.

བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་བསྟི་གནས་ཁང་གིས་བོད་ནང་དུ་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་སྤེལ་བཞིན་པའི་གཞི་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བའི་མི་སེར་སྤེལ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བཅའ་སྡོད་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ལམ་ལུགས་སྐོར་གྱི་ཡིག་ཆ་འདོན་སྤེལ་གནང་བ་དེར། ཨ་རིའི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མང་གཙོ་ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་གིས་ཆེ་བསྟོད་ཀྱི་ཚུལ་དུ་མང་གཙོའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཕུལ་ཡོད་ལ། བཀྲས་མཐོང་ལྷ་སྒྲོན་དང་འབུམ་རམས་པ་རྒྱལ་ལོ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚབ་བྱས་ཏེ་གཟེངས་རྟགས་དེ་བཞེས་ཡོད།

(Video by National Endowment for Democracy)

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Campaign Highlights

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Tibetans in exile are on the frontline of targeted cyber attacks

Like the alarming attempt discovered by our digital security team to infect Tibetans’ phones with malware. Attackers pretending to be journalists, Amnesty International staff, NGO volunteers, and tourists to India started conversations via WhatsApp with Tibet movement leaders, trying, again and again, to get them to click on links with malicious software. Just one click would have given the attackers full access to their target’s mobile phone.
Check out our tips to mitigate cyber attacks:
https://tibetaction.net/digitalsecurity/stay-secure-online/

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Tibet Will Not Be Erased

By raising the alarm on China’s mass removal of 1 million Tibetan children from their homes and families, together we have put Tibet back in the headlines and Beijing on the back foot.

In the past year alone, three key UN bodies and six States have spoken out publicly against China’s colonial boarding schools in Tibet, and 12 major media outlets have written stories on this issue.

This is groundbreaking work: China’s information blackout and lockdown of Tibet, together with its global bullying tactics, had all but erased coverage of the Sino-Tibet conflict in the media and on the world stage.

Together we’ve put China’s repressive policies in Tibet back under serious scrutiny and Beijing is feeling the heat.

In the coming year, we will do everything in our power to build on this momentum to abolish China’s colonial boarding school system in Tibet.

 

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