On Friday, November 28, 2025, Tendor (Tenzin Dorjee) Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations in Geneva. **Scroll down for the full transcript** Despite both China and Iran interrupting multiple times and demanding he be stopped from speaking, Tendor was able to continue to rousing applause...
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Tibet Action’s Institute Director Lhadon Tethong was interviewed on the BBC World Service’s programme Newshour on September 1, 2025 about the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the “Tibet Autonomous Region” and Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Lhasa. Listen to the show on the BBC website here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zss7tbck5cv (Starting at minute 40:28 in the US/Canada...
September 1, 2025. Original article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/beijings-dangerous-game-tibet In early July, thousands of Tibetans, Buddhists, and other well-wishers gathered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to mark the 90th birthday of Tenzin Gyatso—better known as the 14th Dalai Lama. The de facto pope of Tibetan Buddhism announced...
On The Guardian’s “Today in Focus” podcast, listen to Tibet Action Institute’s Lhadon Tethong and The Guardian’s South Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, discuss the battle between Tibetan Buddhists and China over the successor to the Dalai Lama. Listen here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jul/28/the-hunt-for-the-next-dalai-lama-podcast Before long, Tibetan Buddhism will enter an unknown world – one without its current Dalai...
The Dalai Lama: My hope for the Tibetan people March 6, 2025 Tibetans have spent nearly 75 years fighting for freedom. Their struggle should continue beyond my lifetime. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. His book “Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle With China for My...
For Immediate ReleaseMarch 3, 2025 [Geneva] Tibetan activists and supporters welcome the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk’s, acknowledgement of the worsening human rights situation in Tibet in his global update at the Human Rights Council today. For the first time since he became the highest-ranking human rights official, Türk expressed concern over “education...
New York Times investigation finds Tibetan children suffering widespread and systematic physical and psychological harm, cultural erasure in Chinese government-run boarding system For Immediate Release January 9, 2025 Boston – A groundbreaking exposé in the New York Times published today paints a disturbing picture of the severe mental, emotional, and physical harms being inflicted on...
