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...
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July 4, 2023January 15, 2024
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June 29, 2023June 29, 2023
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HRC52 – Item 4: General Debate on Human Rights Situations that require the Council’s attention
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...
June 20, 2023June 20, 2023
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MPs urge Canada to sanction officials responsible for Chinese-run residential schools in Tibet
Original article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mps-urge-canada-to-sanction-officials-responsible-for-chinese-run/ A parliamentary committee is calling on Ottawa to sanction officials responsible for China-run residential boarding schools in Tibet and to issue a statement calling for an end to the system, which it says mirrors Canada’s historical treatment of Indigenous children. Nine-hundred-thousand Tibetan children in China have been separated from families and forcibly required to...
June 14, 2023June 14, 2023
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Joint Letter to US Secretary of State on His Visit to China
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...
May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
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UN women’s rights body calls on China to abolish coercive residential schools in Tibet and provide Tibetan women and girls with access to Tibetan language education
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...
May 17, 2023May 17, 2023
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May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
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France Express Concerns Over China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
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...
April 21, 2023May 2, 2023
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Tenzin Dorjee Testifies at Second Canadian Parliamentary Hearing on Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
On April 21, Tenzin Dorjee, Tibet Action Senior Reacher testified at the second Canadian parliamentary hearing on China’s Residential Boarding Schools & Preschools in Tibet. Alongside Canada Tibet Committee’s Sherap Tharchen, the Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Zeekgyap Tulku and Tenzin Choekyi from Tibet Watch, he provided strong evidence to illustrate how Beijing is using...