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Original Link: https://2021-2025.state.gov/announcement-of-visa-restrictions-to-address-forced-assimilation-in-tibet/ The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions under the authority of Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act on People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools.  These coercive policies seek to...

Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Original link: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-to-sanction-chinese-officials-for-forcible-assimilation-of-tibetans-c77aa1bf The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said it was taking action to punish Chinese officials in response to what it called the forcible assimilation of young Tibetans, broadening its assault on Beijing’s treatment of ethnic minorities. The State Department accused China of the forcible assimilation of more than...

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...

  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...

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...

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...