Repression and Environmental Damage Renew Tibetan Calls for Occupied Tibet to Become a “No Extraction Zone” UN human rights experts have raised urgent concern and pressed the Chinese government to provide information about nine Tibetan environmental human rights defenders serving prison sentences of up to 11 years. [1] The statement was issued by Special Rapporteurs…

To Honourable G20 Leaders,  Re: China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet  We, a coalition of over 143 Tibet-related rights groups, are writing to you ahead of the G20 New Delhi Leader’s Summit on 9-10 September 2023, urging you to take firm joint action concerning the Chinese government’s relentless colonisation of Tibet and attempts to eradicate…

[8 AUGUST 2023] [LONDON] Today, Tuesday 8 August, 14 Tibet groups have made public a letter (1) written to US biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific. The letter challenges the company over its continued refusal to engage with concerns(2) that it is enabling the ethnically targeted DNA collection from over a million Tibetans. In the letter,…

International Tibet Network Members are today joining the commemoration of the 34th anniversary of the 4 June Tiananmen Square Massacre when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army opened fire on tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators killing untold numbers of peaceful protesters and bystanders.  In the weeks leading up to 4 June students, democracy activists, and…

[Geneva] On 30 May, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) raised concerns about the Chinese Government’s coercive residential school system in Tibet and called for it to be abolished. The findings were released in today’s report of the Committee, after it scrutinised the human rights record of the Chinese government…

We are Tibetan leaders and activists writing to address the media storm surrounding His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Language, culture, and context define how people view any given situation. For Tibetans who see the video clip of the Dalai Lama’s interaction with a child at a public event in February, it is clear he is…

6 March 2023 [Geneva] On 6 March, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) [1] strongly criticised the Chinese Government’s coercive residential school system in Tibet and called for it to be immediately abolished [2]. The findings were released in today’s report of the Committee, after it scrutinised the human rights record…

Dear Marc Casper It has been over 100 days since Tibetans and Tibet supporters around the world first reached out to you and your company, Thermo Fisher, with a simple, decisive demand: End the supply of your DNA kits into occupied Tibet. When you refused to engage with us, we launched a global week of…

To Honorable G20 Foreign Ministers, Re: China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet We, a coalition of over 125 Tibet-related rights groups, are writing to you ahead of the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Delhi urging you to take firm joint action concerning the Chinese government’s relentless colonisation of Tibet and attempts to eradicate Tibetans’…

“Serious Concern” About China’s Assimilation Policies and Residential Schools in Tibet Today, UN human rights experts have expressed alarm about China’s residential schools in Tibet, which are part of a “large scale campaign [by the Chinese authorities] to assimilate Tibetan culture and language.” [1] The Special Rapporteurs stated they are “very disturbed that in recent…