30 May 2023 [Geneva] On 30 May, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) [1] raised concerns about the Chinese Government’s coercive residential school system in Tibet and called for it to be abolished [2]. The findings were released in today’s report of the Committee, after it scrutinised the human rights...
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
May 17, 2023May 17, 2023
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May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
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France Express Concerns Over China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
Question from Ms EUSTACHE-BRINIO Jacqueline (Val-d’Oise – Les Républicains) published on 03/23/2023 Original article: https://www.senat.fr/questions/base/2023/qSEQ230305886.html Ms. Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the forced boarding school of Tibetan children by China, which the United Nations (UN) recently seized. UN experts are indeed alarmed by the forced separation...
April 27, 2023April 27, 2023
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Swiss government also called on China to abolish Colonial Boarding Schools
Original Statement: https://www.parlament.ch/fr/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20237230 English Translation Below: Switzerland supports the recommendations of the UN Covenant I Committee of 7 March 2023, which asks China to take all necessary measures to guarantee the full exercise of cultural rights, and to abolish the boarding school system imposed on Tibetan children and to authorize the establishment of private Tibetan...
April 21, 2023April 21, 2023
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April 21, 2023May 2, 2023
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Tenzin Dorjee Testifies at Second Canadian Parliamentary Hearing on Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
On April 21, Tenzin Dorjee, Tibet Action Senior Reacher testified at the second Canadian parliamentary hearing on China’s Residential Boarding Schools & Preschools in Tibet. Alongside Canada Tibet Committee’s Sherap Tharchen, the Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Zeekgyap Tulku and Tenzin Choekyi from Tibet Watch, he provided strong evidence to illustrate how Beijing is using...
April 19, 2023May 2, 2023
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Regierung: Zwangsinternate für tibetische Kinder schließen
Original Statement in German: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-943646 English Translation Below: Berlin: (hib/SAS) The federal government is concerned about the increasingly deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet. The UN Social Affairs Committee’s call for an end to compulsory boarding schools for Tibetan children and forced settlements of Tibetan nomads is expressly supported, a representative of the Federal Foreign Office...
April 14, 2023April 18, 2023
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April 14, 2023April 15, 2023
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April 13, 2023May 2, 2023
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Swiss Government Calls on China to Abolish the Colonial Boarding Schools
Statement released on April 13, 2023 Original Statement: https://www.parlament.ch/fr/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20237230 Translation of Statement: Switzerland supports the recommendations of the UN Covenant I Committee of 7 March 2023, which asks China to take all necessary measures to guarantee the full exercise of cultural rights, and to abolish the boarding school system imposed on Tibetan children and to...