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Tibet Issue Raised in Australian Senate on Rights Day

samedi 14 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: Raising the issue of Tibet in the Senate on World Human Rights Day on 10 December, Australian lawmaker from Tasmania, Lisa Singh, urged the international community to commit to act on behalf of Tibetans suffering human rights violations under the Chinese rule. Below are excerpts (...)

Japan pledges $20bn to ASEAN in bid to dilute China’s influence in the region

samedi 14 décembre 2013 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[AFP/The Telegraph] Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe offers aid and loans over five years to Southeast Asian bloc against the backdrop of an ongoing territorial dispute with Beijing Japan pledged $20 billion in aid and loans to southeast Asia on Saturday, in its latest charm offensive to woo (...)

Tibet’s Tense New Reality

samedi 14 décembre 2013 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

By Anastasia Corell [The Atlantic] Checkpoints with fire extinguishers, pincer-wielding police officers, and spies disguised as monks—welcome to daily life in Lhasa. From nearly any point in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, you can see at least two police checkpoints. At each (...)

Follow spirit of Mandela, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama in tribute

samedi 14 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: On 13 December, PeaceJam’s One Billion Acts of Peace campaign based in Johannesburg hosted a 20-minute digital conversation via Google+ Hangouts On Air between Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to honour the life and legacy of Nelson (...)

BBC Report: Tibetans displaced within region ‘amid rampant mining’

samedi 14 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Featured Flash News, News From Other Sites

By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, BBC News A record number of Tibetans have been displaced in their own homeland amid rampant mining and river damming in vacated areas, according to reports. Tibetan leaders and researchers claim that this displacement has been going on over the last (...)

Chinese authorities increase pressure on foreign correspondents

vendredi 13 décembre 2013 par jamphel — News From Other Sites

[FCCC] International journalists working in China complain that the Beijing authorities are making life difficult for them, sometimes making it impossible for them to do their work. Visas are being delayed or denied. Reporters are finding it increasingly difficult to conduct interviews because (...)

ICT Appoints Leading Human Rights Defender as President

vendredi 13 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: Mr Matteo Mecacci, a leading human rights advocate and former member of Italian Parliament, has been appointed as the new President of the US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), the world’s largest advocacy organisation for the Tibetan people. In a statement, Mr Richard (...)

Live: Conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama honoring Nelson Mandela

vendredi 13 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News

[Source: dalailama.com] His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join in a live conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Mary Robinson and Sir Richard Branson to honor the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday, December 13 at 7:30am EST (Eastern (...)

Speaker Penpa Tsering Meets Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner

vendredi 13 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: Speaker Penpa Tsering of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile met Mr Kevin Lindsay, Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Human Rights and members of the Tibetan community in Chicago and Madison from 6 -10 December. He was in Minnesota at the invitation of the Tibetan American (...)

CTA expresses concern over China’s crackdown on Tibetans in Driru

jeudi 12 décembre 2013 par jamphel — Featured Flash News, Flash News

DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep concern over the continuing government crackdown on Tibetans in Driru county in Nagchu prefecture in eastern Tibet (incorporated into the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region) since the Chinese government brutally crushed the (...)