For Immediate Release September 4, 2023 Statement of Lhadon Tethong, Director of Tibet Action Institute, in response to the recent PRC Government-organized trip of UN Ambassadors to Tibet, August 28-September 2, 2023. Boston – The Chinese government organized a tour of Tibet from August 28-Sept 2 [1] for a group of Ambassadors to the UN...
For Immediate Release August 22, 2023 Washington – Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States government will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials “for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools.” In a strongly worded statement [1], he condemned China’s “coercive policies...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 January 2023 78% of Tibetan students aged 6 to 18 separated from their families and forced into China’s colonial boarding school system in Tibet UN human rights experts have raised urgent concern about China’s residential [1] schools in Tibet, which are part of a “large scale campaign [by the Chinese authorities]...
For immediate release – Friday 18 December 2020 Apple suppressing human rights critics, shareholders warn Apple has failed to enact the human rights policy it introduced in August, and has suppressed a shareholder proposal raising human rights concerns, according to a coalition of shareholders, campaigners,and Tibetan, Uyghur,and Hongkonger human rights defenders. The tech giant introduced...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 22, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365 | [email protected] Technology Analysts, Developers, Journalists, and Activists Challenge Apple’s Complicity with Chinese Government Censorship The first-ever Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference (WWDAACC) kicked off this morning, hacking questions on human rights & censorship for China’s App Store...
