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China: UN experts alarmed by separation of 1 million Tibetan children from families and forced assimilation at residential schools
February 6, 2023February 9, 2023
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China: UN experts alarmed by separation of 1 million Tibetan children from families and forced assimilation at residential schools

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...

UN Rights Experts Call China to Account over Residential Schools and Assimilation Policies in Tibet
January 10, 2023January 10, 2023
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UN Rights Experts Call China to Account over Residential Schools and Assimilation Policies in Tibet

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]...

Dying in the Truth: A Closer Look at Self-immolations in Freedom Struggles
December 12, 2022December 13, 2022
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Dying in the Truth: A Closer Look at Self-immolations in Freedom Struggles

by Tenzin Dorjee and Amber French Self-immolation is an unthinkably costly and tragic method of last resort sometimes used by those striving for justice and freedom in asymmetric conflicts. The first person to perform this fiery protest as a modern political tactic is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in the lotus position at a busy intersection in Saigon...

230 Rights groups demand resignation of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
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230 Rights groups demand resignation of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Activists slam Michelle Bachelet’s six-day visit for whitewashing repression against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, Hong Kongers and others We, 230 Uyghur, Tibetan, Southern Mongolian, Hong Kong, and Chinese democracy and international human rights advocacy groups, call for the immediate resignation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after she whitewashed the Chinese government’s...

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