Tibet Action Director, Lhadon Tethong, joined a panel with Southern Mongolian, Uyghur, and Chinese human rights activists hosted by The Tibet Bureau Geneva. “China’s Weapons of Mass-Subjugation: Surveillance, Camps and Cultural Genocide” was a virtual side-event at the 45th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Full panel discussion:
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Apple Issues Landmark New Human Rights Policy Following Pressure From Activists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 September 2020 CONTACTS: Pema Doma, Students for a Free TIbet | [email protected] +1 (617) 792-3606 Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute | [email protected] +91-9882407365 Mandie McKeown, International Tibet Network | [email protected] +44 7748158618 Apple Issues Landmark New Human Rights Policy Following Pressure From Activists For the first time, Apple has issued a...
Tech Tips for Navigating a Pandemic
With so many of us now working from home, a key question we cover in this post is how to practice good security and best practices around privacy at home. At Tibet Action, our team works remotely, so we’ve learned a thing or two about building a foundation of security that relies on individuals rather...
New People Power Series: Beijing Smog Comic
In honor of yesterday’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and all the activists who struggled for rights and democracy in China then and now, we are launching a new “People Power” series this week to celebrate and learn from grassroots campaign victories in China and around the world. Read and share the new comic “Beijing Smog,” which tells...
བོད་མིར་རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་སྐོར་རི་མོའི་སྒྲུང་དེབ་གསར་པ་སྟེ། མེ་ཤོད་ཀྱི་ནོར་བུ།
རང་གི་ཕ་ཡུལ་དུ་ཤིང་ནགས་གཅོད་བྲེགས་འགོག་རྒྱུ་ཐག་གཅོད་བྱེད་མཁན་མེ་ཤོད་གྲོང་གསེབ་ཀྱི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་ཆེ་བའི་མཚོ་མོ་དང་། གྲོང་གསེབ་པ་གཞན་གྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀློགས། གྲོང་གསེབ་པ་ཚོས་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་པོ་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱིས་ལོ་ཧྲིལ་པོ་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལ་ཤིང་ནགས་གཅོད་བྲེག་བྱེད་སའི་བགྲོད་ལམ་དེ་བཀག་པ་རེད། མེ་ཤོད་ཀྱི་ནོར་བུའི་སྐོར་འདི་ནས་ཀློག་གནང་ཞུ།
New Tibetan Victories Comic: The Jewels of Mesho
Read the gripping story of Tsomo and other courageous villagers of Mesho, who put a stop to logging of their forests. Using their own bodies, the villagers blockaded the logging road, preventing access for an entire year. “Thanks to the courage of our villagers, we saved this land from further harm. We uncovered the lies,...
Erasing Tibet: Censorship on Chinese Video Sharing Site Youku
Dharamsala – Tibet Action Institute released a report on November 30th, 2016 titled, Erasing Tibet: Censorship on Chinese Video Sharing Site Youku, documenting censorship of Tibet-related content on the popular Chinese video sharing site Youku. All social media companies operating in China must follow rules and regulations around content filtering. However, little is known about...
The Power of the Powerless: Public Participation Campaigns
[བོད་ཡིག] Usually people think of activist campaigns as demands for something: we organize and build pressure in order to get a politician, a company director, or someone else to do what we want. But there is another kind of campaign where victory is not dependent on an outside decisionmaker.