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Technology, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression Activists & Prominent Artists to Expose Apple Censorship
June 18, 2020September 10, 2024
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Technology, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression Activists & Prominent Artists to Expose Apple Censorship

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 18, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365  | [email protected] Pema Doma, Students for a Free Tibet | +1 617-792-3606 | [email protected] “Freedom of Expression Concert” & “Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference” to Coincide with Apple’s Famed Developers Conference [New York / Dharamsala] – As Apple...

Tibetan netizens express the need for their mother-tongue
May 4, 2020May 4, 2020
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Tibetan netizens express the need for their mother-tongue

In early April, schools in Ngaba, eastern Tibet reopened following the Covid-19 outbreak. However, schools were told the use of Tibetan language in classes would be scrapped as of September, when the next academic year begins. Human Rights Watch detailed that threat in primary schools in Tibet: the gradual replacement of Tibetan-language instruction with the...

Tech Tips for Navigating a Pandemic
April 7, 2020April 7, 2020
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Tech Tips for Navigating a Pandemic

With so many of us now working from home, a key question we cover in this post is how to practice good security and best practices around privacy at home. At Tibet Action, our team works remotely, so we’ve learned a thing or two about building a foundation of security that relies on individuals rather...

Live Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda
April 3, 2020April 7, 2020
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Live Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda

Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda: Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Chinese activists speak up WHAT: On World Health Day, Tuesday 7 April 2020, a panel of Chinese, Tibetan, and Uyghur rights leaders joined by Chinese-focused human rights experts  conducted an online media briefing on the People’s Republic of China’s escalating repressive agenda in the age of...

Captain Boycott and the Tactic that Changed the World
September 14, 2016November 22, 2017
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Captain Boycott and the Tactic that Changed the World

[བོད་ཡིག] The boycott is one of the most well-known nonviolent resistance tactics, and it can also be one of the most powerful. To carry out a boycott, people don’t have to gather together in a single place or engage in high-risk actions. Due to the low risk involved, lots of people can take part, building...

April 8, 2015April 8, 2015
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How Does Nonviolent Change Happen?

To most people, the process by which change occurs is a great mystery that takes place inside the black box of politics. Most of the time, those pushing for political change recognize the important ingredients that go into the process and the outcome that results from it. But between the input of ingredients and the...

June 24, 2012June 24, 2012
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James Lawson Award Honors Four Resisters

Nathan Schneider, June 23, 2011 On June 23rd, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict presented its first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement—or, rather, awards. The ceremony took place over lunch in a multi-purpose room at Tufts University, midway through ICNC’s annual, week-long Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict. All four Lawson Award...

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