UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 52nd Session (27 February to 4 April 2023) Item 4 Statement by H.E. Ms Anna JARDFELT Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Sweden on behalf of the European Union Geneva, 22 March 2023 – CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY – HRC52 Item 4 General Debate on Human Rights Situations that require the Council’s attention EU Statement...
Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
House of Commons Committee Calls on Government of Canada to Push for an End to China’s Residential Schools in Tibet and Sanction Chinese Officials
For Immediate Release June 22, 2023 Ottawa – Canada’s parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development sounded the alarm on China’s residential boarding school system in Tibet on Friday, recommending the Government of Canada call on China to end the system, sanction Chinese officials responsible for...
MPs urge Canada to sanction officials responsible for Chinese-run residential schools in Tibet
Original article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mps-urge-canada-to-sanction-officials-responsible-for-chinese-run/ A parliamentary committee is calling on Ottawa to sanction officials responsible for China-run residential boarding schools in Tibet and to issue a statement calling for an end to the system, which it says mirrors Canada’s historical treatment of Indigenous children. Nine-hundred-thousand Tibetan children in China have been separated from families and forcibly required to...
Joint Letter to US Secretary of State on His Visit to China
Dear Secretary Blinken, We write on behalf of 42 nongovernmental organizations that report on and advocate for human rights in China, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang regarding your forthcoming trip to Beijing starting on June 18. At a time when the Chinese government is committing widespread and grave human rights violations both inside and...
UN women’s rights body calls on China to abolish coercive residential schools in Tibet and provide Tibetan women and girls with access to Tibetan language education
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...
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...
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...