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...
Host: Sonam Wangdue, Actor and Comedian Speakers: Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Digital Security Program Director Tenzin Choedon, Manager of Educational Initiatives
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...
For Immediate Release: 8 April, 2020 Contacts: John Jones, Free Tibet, UK | +44 (0)777 068 1938 | [email protected] Mandie McKeown, Tibet Network | +44 (0)7748 158 618 | [email protected] Dorjee Tseten, Students for a Free Tibet, [Tibetan, English] +1 (646) 753 3889 | [email protected] Uncover Beijing’s Coronavirus Agenda: Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese rights experts...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
