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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

Letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights – death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

20 July 2015 Dear High Commissioner Prince Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, Re: Request for Urgent Action concerning death of Tibetan religious leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche We are writing with further information about the passing of high profile Tibetan political prisoner, Tenzin... Read More

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche: Death in a Chinese Prison

Tibet movement mourns the passing of an innocent Tibetan hero, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who has died in a Chinese prison. International Tibet Network calls on world governments to help the family recover his body, and press China for a full... Read More

Declaración Conjunta: Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Libertad Condicional Médica

Declaración Conjunta: Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Libertad Condicional Médica   7 de abril, 2015; su Inmediata Liberación Activistas por Tíbet hacen un llamado a los gobiernos del mundo ejerzan presión a China para la urgente liberación de Tenzin Delek Rinpoche por... 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

Campaigners call for urgent action for Tibetan torture victim

Tenzin Delek, a highly respected Tibetan buddhist monk, is known to be in extremely poor health with a serious heart condition. 25 June 2015; For Immediate Release On the eve of the United Nations Day in Support of the Victims... Read More

G7: 7/8 June 2015 – Unite for Tibet

4 June 2015 To the Presidents, Prime Ministers, Chancellor and Foreign Ministers of G7 countries, copied to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Your Excellencies, We are writing prior to the G7 Summit... Read More

Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice”

MEDIA RELEASE 1 June 2015 [For Immediate Use] Tibet campaigners launch global petition against Beijing Olympics bid; accuse IOC of “Skating on Thin Ice” IOC Evaluation Commission accepts China’s assurances regarding human rights but gives no details of “written assurances”... Read More

Successful Tibet Campaigns

A presentation of some of the Tibet movement’s most successful campaigns, to celebrate our achievements, reinforce the importance of excellent strategies and tactics, and preserve institutional memory. What stands out as being key to these successes is collaboration; the vast... Read More

International Tibet Network: Celebrating 15 Years

“I welcome the creation of the International Tibet Support Network… the time is now ripe for our friends to systematically coordinate their efforts” His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 1999, Thubten Samdup (above), convened an ad hoc Working Group to develop a proposal to create... Read More