Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)

Original link: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and GENEVA (6 February 2023) – Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today. “We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan...

by Tenzin Dorjee and Amber French Self-immolation is an unthinkably costly and tragic method of last resort sometimes used by those striving for justice and freedom in asymmetric conflicts. The first person to perform this fiery protest as a modern political tactic is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in the lotus position at a busy intersection in Saigon...

Activists slam Michelle Bachelet’s six-day visit for whitewashing repression against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, Hong Kongers and others We, 230 Uyghur, Tibetan, Southern Mongolian, Hong Kong, and Chinese democracy and international human rights advocacy groups, call for the immediate resignation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after she whitewashed the Chinese government’s...

JAMES GRIFFITHS ASIA CORRESPONDENT, HONG KONG PUBLISHED May 24, 2022 Original article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-china-hopes-to-clear-up-misinformation-with-un-rights-commissioners/?fbclid=IwAR2ZRXxWEUrb6pESU79OxOb6k9GXcMDg9_sTdwrj8wz3HPG_itoGFY7M8OQ Meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guangzhou, China, on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi came prepared with a gift. After posing for photos alongside Michelle Bachelet, he presented the Chilean diplomat with a book of speeches...