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All posts by: Mandie McKeown

Tibet Advocacy Coalition | UPR Mid-Term Assessment

In 2014, following China’s 2nd cycle Universal Periodic Review, China committed to comply with crucial recommendations spanning economic, cultural, and social rights, as well as non-derogable rights, such as freedom from torture. However, since the 2nd-cycle UPR, China has unleashed an increased... Read More

Tibet Third Pole welcomes COP21 Climate Agreement; calls for stronger human rights protection and urgent action to protect the Tibetan Plateau

For Immediate Release; 12 December 2015 Contacts: Lobsang Yangtso [English, Tibetan] or Mandie McKeown, International Tibet Network [English] +44 (0)7748 158 618. [Paris] Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Paris welcomed the adoption of the COP21 Agreement, to limit warming to... Read More

COP21 Paris: China’s failed environment policies exacerbate human rights abuses

For Immediate Release: 8 December 2015 China’s failed environment policies exacerbate human rights abuses of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and Han Chinese Paris COP21 agreement must include strong language to enshrine the protection of human rights [PARIS] The civil and... Read More

Tibet Third Pole delegation arrives in Paris

Media Release: For Immediate Release; 28 November 2015 Tibet Third Pole delegation arrives in Paris to Demand Climate Action for Tibet [Paris] A delegation of Tibetans and Tibet supporters are joining the thousands of environment and human rights activists who are... Read More

United Nations: China Raise False Information about Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s Death

Press Release: 18 November 2015 [For Immediate Release] United Nations: China Raise False Information about Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s Death Tibet, Uyghur and Southern Mongolian activist leaders slam China’s defensive responses about torture abuses during the United Nations Committee on Torture... Read More

Tibet Advocacy Coalition | CAT Submission

Tibet Advocacy Coalition Report for Submission to the UN Committee Against Torture – for Consideration of the Sixth Report of the People’s Republic of China on its Implementation of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or... Read More

#Beijing2022: Protest and anger as Tibet campaigners respond to Beijing winning the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

MEDIA RELEASE: 31 July 2015 Read in Spanish In response to the International Olympic Committee’s decision to award the 2022 Olympic Games to China, the International Tibet Network said: “The IOC has sent the wrong message to the wrong people at... Read More

Activists reject IOC’s assurances on #Beijing2022 “naïve, inexplicable and alarming”

MEDIA RELEASE: 29 July 2015 Human rights activists reject IOC’s latest assurances on Beijing Olympics bid as “naïve, inexplicable and alarming” IOC letter to campaigners expresses “confidence” in China’s promises on human rights Human rights campaigners have reacted with outrage to a... Read More

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 Bid: Joint Open Letter to International Olympic Committee

Read in Spanish As Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and Han Chinese we join together to urge you, International Olympic Committee members, not to award another Olympic Games to China. All of the people we represent have suffered as a result... Read More

“No more Bloody Games” – Young Tibetan activists stage IOC protest as Beijing makes pitch for 2022 Olympics

10 June 2015: Lausanne: Activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) protested at the Lausanne Palace Hotel, where representatives of the Chinese Government and Beijing Olympic Committee were presenting their case for Beijing to be awarded the 2022... Read More