On March 21, 2022, the UK Mission to the UN in Geneva delivered their Item 4 statement to the 49th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council and became the first country to speak out on China’s colonial boarding schools in Tibet. Ambassador Simon Manley, UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, delivered...
Listen to interview here: https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/02/03/tibet-action-institute-china-olympics-activism Some events at the Winter Olympics are already underway in Beijing, and the opening ceremonies will be held tomorrow. The International Olympic Committee has long been criticized for awarding the games to China because of the country’s many alleged human rights abuses. Several of the groups organizing protests have members in...
Original Article: https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/activists-urge-athletes-speak-beijing-olympics-82528355 Human rights activists have issued a call to action against the Beijing Olympics, imploring athletes and sponsors to speak out against what they call the “genocide games.” BEIJING — Human rights activists issued a call to action against the Beijing Olympics on Friday, imploring athletes and sponsors to speak out against what they call...
Original Article: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/china-separating-4-year-old-kids-from-parents-for-indoctrination-in-tibet-report.html A recent report by the Tibet Action Institute has revealed China’s vast system of ‘colonial boarding schools’ inside Tibet, where children as young as four are separated from their parents. As per the report titled, ‘Separated from their families, hidden from the world- China’s vast system of colonial boarding schools inside Tibet’, Chinese government policies are...
Terry Glavin is an author and journalist.Original article: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/glavin-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-beijing-olympics-isnt-a-big-step-but-it-will-have-to-do So, as things have turned out, the democracies declaring their intention to boycott February’s Winter Games in Beijing had grown numerous enough by Wednesday for Justin Trudeau’s government to include itself by hiding in the crowd and hoping Beijing wouldn’t particularly notice. That’s what the Trudeau government...
Original Article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-horrors-of-canadas-residential-schools-are-being-repeated-in-tibet/ Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan-Canadian novelist and activist. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, will be published next year. The surest way to eradicate a culture is to sever that culture from its children. This week, we learned that China has forced almost 80 per cent of Tibetan children to leave...
Chinese government policies are forcing three out of four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, separating 800,000-900,000 children aged 6-18 from their families and communities, according to a report by Tibet Action Institute, an advocacy group dedicated to advancing the Tibetan freedom movement. The report says that these network of boarding schools...
