BY JOHN FENG ON 3/14/23 AT 3:00 AM EDT original article: https://www.newsweek.com/china-tibet-human-rights-culture-language-1786558 Tibet has been an effective police state for more than a decade, under the authority of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, observers say. They told Newsweek that Beijing’s targets is long-term control over the younger generation, with the goal of indoctrinating them with Communist Party ideology....
6 March 2023 [Geneva] On 6 March, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) [1] strongly criticised the Chinese Government’s coercive residential school system in Tibet and called for it to be immediately abolished [2]. The findings were released in today’s report of the Committee, after it scrutinised the human rights record...
Original Article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tibetan-children-residential-schools/ When China annexed Tibet in the 1950s, it promised that the “religious beliefs, customs and habits of the Tibetan people” would be respected. China’s fourth constitution, adopted in 1982, codified the right of all ethnic groups “to use and develop their own spoken and written languages and to preserve … their own ways...
Original link: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/china-un-experts-alarmed-separation-1-million-tibetan-children-families-and GENEVA (6 February 2023) – Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today. “We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan...
