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Boarding Schools for Tibet’s Nearly 1 Million Children Erasing Native Language, Culture: NGO Report
December 9, 2021January 21, 2022
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Boarding Schools for Tibet’s Nearly 1 Million Children Erasing Native Language, Culture: NGO Report

Original Article: https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/12/09/boarding-schools-for-tibets-nearly-1-million-children-erasing-native-language-culture-ngo-report.html A report released by the The Tibet Action Institute (TAI) on Dec. 7 describes how children in Tibet as young as four have been forced into attending a vast boarding school system created by the Chinese regime. Students in these schools receive a “politicized” education, mainly in Chinese, and are unable to practice Tibetan...

China’s boarding schools strip Tibetan children of language: study
December 9, 2021January 21, 2022
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China’s boarding schools strip Tibetan children of language: study

Original Article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-boarding-schools-strip-Tibetan-children-of-language-study HONG KONG — Chinese government policies are forcing three out of four Tibetan children into state-run boarding schools, separating them from their families and threatening to erase their mother tongue, cultural identity and traditions, according to a new investigative report. The report by Tibet Action Institute, a campaign group based in the U.S.,...

The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response
June 3, 2021August 2, 2021
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The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response

Original article: https://www.cfr.org/blog/straw-man-tibet-xinjiang-equivalence-response?utm_medium=social_share&utm_source=fb&fbclid=IwAR1wvQ-ZZzwJuFnq61ASQoCtP4sfRSjp5xf-t8AJPWxp-GDaoPbzNUshvEE Tenzin Dorjee is a Senior Researcher and Strategist at the Tibet Action Institute and a PhD candidate at Columbia University. In a post published on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog on March 29, Tibetologist Robert Barnett admonishes what he sees as the blurring of lines between advocacy and scholarship in the discourse on...

Full-blown boycott pushed for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
May 17, 2021October 15, 2021
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Full-blown boycott pushed for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing

ESPN (Associated Press): https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/31459936/full-blown-boycott-pushed-2022-winter-olympics-beijing Groups alleging human rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a...

Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option
April 8, 2021January 16, 2024
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Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option

We are Uyghur and Tibetan activists. We call on the United States, Canada and like-minded countries to coordinate a global boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. By Zumretay Arkin and Lhadon Tethong Article link: https://zumretay.medium.com/beijing-2022-boycott-is-the-only-option-23de017b579b A movement calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is gaining momentum. State Department officials have recently...

TESTIMONY OF TENZIN DORJEE, TIBET ACTION INSTITUTE, BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA
September 30, 2020September 30, 2020
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TESTIMONY OF TENZIN DORJEE, TIBET ACTION INSTITUTE, BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA

Thank you Chairman McGovern, Co-chair Mr. Rubio, and members of the Commission for allowing me to testify on behalf of the Tibetan people. Over the course of seven decades, the Chinese government has waged an unrelenting campaign of violence and coercion aimed at eradicating the Tibetan people’s faith, identity, and way of life. As China...

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