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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

Flames in Tibet: Five Years of Resistance and Repression

On 27 February 2009 Tapey, a young Tibetan monk, walked out into the street in Ngaba carrying a home-drawn Tibetan flag and a photograph of the Dalai Lama. He doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire, shouting slogans... Read More

Nepal

On Saturday 25 April, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, with its epicentre midway between Kathmandu and Pokhara. The official death toll is well above 6,000 and rising daily as relief agencies reach remote villages cut off by the quake. Thousands of... Read More