Tibetan protests for free speech and expression in Chinese-controlled Tibet and its associated content online are often the subject of Chinese censorship mechanisms. News of self immolations in Chinese-controlled Tibet often fail to spread quickly, as information controls mean that what would otherwise be instantaneously shared is either stopped completely or only trickles out slowly. When Sonam Tso, a mother of...
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
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China- Journalists Detail Official Efforts to Put Down and Hide Protests of Minorities
China: Journalists Detail Official Efforts to Put Down and Hide Protests of Minorities Yaqui Wang, Northeast Asia correspondent with the Committee to Protect Journalists is one of many Journalists to detail in depth how China’s authoritarian regime has been a keen supporter of information control, especially when it comes to the Tibetan and Uyghur communities....
POLITICAL RIGHTS
Authoritarian regimes can seem too difficult to topple. But that’s because we often think of power as coming from the top down. What if we see that power comes from the bottom up, and that people can win their rights even up against the most brutal political system?
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Cyber Security
Kunleng invites Lobsang Gyatso Sither from Tibet Action Institute to discuss cyber security and the awareness of internet safety and electronic espionage.
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Tibet
Tibet has long been known as a place of mystique and intrigue for its ancient customs and beliefs. The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama have garnered widespread attention around the world, from the media to Hollywood celebrities. Despite this, the practices of Tibetan Buddhism and the real lives of modern day Tibetans are not...
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How Tibetans Are Fighting Back Against Chinese Hackers
A new wave of cyberattacks show that Tibetan might be learning to better protect themselves against Chinese hackers.
March 1, 2016November 22, 2017
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Don’t Wait, Update!
Updating your computer software is the easiest way to block online attacks. Everyone has received notices on their computers saying “Software Update Available: Update Now or Remind Me Later”. Choosing “Update Now” is simple and powerful way to stay safer online.
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Empowering digital Tibet: An interview with activist Lhadon Tethong
Illustrations by Tenzing Gaychey Lhadon Tethong is one of the most prominent and recognizable leaders in the Tibetan freedom movement. She first became a spokeswoman on Tibetan issues after her speech at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concerts inspired a new generation of Tibetan supporters. Lhadon then went on to serve as Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet where she...
December 14, 2015November 22, 2017
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གཅིག་སྡུད་དང་ཁ་གྲམ་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ།
ཞི་བའི་ལས་འགུལ་ལ་དབྱེ་བ་འབྱེད་ཚུལ་མང་པོ་ཡོད་ཅིང་། དབྱེ་བ་འབྱེད་ཚུལ་གཅིག་ནི། གཅིག་སྡུད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་དང་ཁ་གྲམ་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་གཉིས་ཡིན། གཅིག་སྡུད་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ནི། སྐད་འབོད་དང་། ཁྲོམས་སྐོར་བཅས་མི་ཚོགས་མང་པོ་ས་གནས་གཅིག་ཏུ་སྡུད་པའི་ལས་འགུལ་དག་ལ་ཟེར། ཁ་གྲམ་གྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ནི། ས་གནས་མང་པོའི་ནང་ལས་འགུལ་ཆུང་ཆུང་མང་པོ་དུས་གཅིག་ལ་སྤེལ་བ་དཔེར་ན། མཉམ་འབྲེལ་སྤོང་བའི་ལས་འགུལ་ལྟ་བུ་ལ་ཟེར།