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2019 marks numerous significant anniversaries; 30 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, 25 years since the Rwandan Genocide, 20 years since the 1999 East Timorese crisis, and 60 years since hundreds of thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of...
UN GENEVA: CHINA DISMISSES KEY HUMAN RIGHTS RECOMMENDATIONS ON TIBET Campaigners express shock at China’s claim to have “accepted and implemented” a call to resume dialogue on Tibet China has rejected 62 out of 346 recommendations made during the United...
Dear Chairman Xi, We are writing to you on International Mother Language Day, a day to embrace and enjoy cultural and linguistic diversity and multilingualism. Every year since 2000, this day has been marked around the world with the aim...
Joint Statement: For Immediate Release 18 January 2019 Tibetan activist and political prisoner, Tashi Wangchuk, denied a visit with his lawyer ahead of the three year anniversary of his detention Tashi Wangchuk to launch new petition against his five-year sentence...
Friday, 18 January 2019 Media release, for immediate use To mark Internet Freedom Day, Tibetans, Tibet supporters and corporate campaigners gathered outside multiple Google offices in 10 countries, across 5 continents, to call on the Google to scrap its controversial...
International Tibet Network joins over 50 rights organisations calling on Google to abandon the censored search engine ‘Project Dragonfly’ being developed for the Chinese market. Dear Mr. Pichai, (Cc: Ben Gomes, Vice President of Search; Kent Walker, Senior Vice President...
Ahead of a U.S. Congressional Hearing that will examining Google’s transparency and accountability related to its data collection and use, global human rights campaigners – including a Senior Research Scientist and former Google employee – joined forces, urging Google to...
As the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is commemorated, there will be much reflection on how far the world has come since 1948, when this “milestone document, which underpins all international human rights law” was...
Media Advisory: For Immediate Release Joint Live Media Briefings: Two briefings via Zoom webinar – Register via links below TIBETAN, UYGHUR AND CHINESE ACTIVISTS UNITE WITH DIGITAL TECH EXPERTS TO TELL GOOGLE: “RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS, DON’T DO CHINA’S DIRTY WORK” CANCEL ’PROJECT...
13 States criticise China’s abuses in Tibet at the UN Human Rights Council [1] Diplomatic support for Tibet [2] increased at the United Nations Human Rights Council as nine countries [3] raised 12 recommendations concerning China’s human rights abuses in Tibet during China’s...