BRUSSELS: A member of Europe Parliament has called on the European Union to appoint a Special EU Representative on Tibet to reaffirm its strategy to support human rights and democracy. The EU should prove its dedication to the policy of peaceful dialogue and support for human rights and (...)
[By Andrew Jacobs / The New York Times] BEIJING — A Chinese court has sentenced eight Tibetan students to prison for their role in street protests last month that unnerved security forces already coping with a wave of self-immolations, many of them by young people who have become increasingly (...)
[International Campaign for Tibet] Since February 2009, 94 Tibetans have self-immolated in Tibet, with a dramatic acceleration in frequency since the once-in-a-decade leadership transition at the Chinese Communist Party Congress in November. Twenty-eight Tibetans self-immolated in November (...)
DHARAMSHALA: Antarashtriya Bharat Tibbat Sahyog Samiti, a Tibet Support Group and IIMT Groups of College, jointly organised a seminar on the issue of Tibet in Meerut to mark the 64th anniversary of the International Human Rights Day on 10 December. Hundreds of people including teachers, (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The United States has described European governments’ call to the Chinese Government on Tibet as a “good example” of Europeans and the United States working “to help improve security and build new relationships in Asia.” In her remarks on European Union’s Human Rights Day in Washington, (...)
New Delhi: The Tibetans residing in Delhi and other adjacent areas like Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad, organised a massive rally from Ramlila Ground to Jantar Mantar to mark the global solidarity with Tibet day on 10 December. Addressing the gathering at Jantar Mantar, His Holiness the Dalai (...)
MOSCOW: Tibet Solidarity Day was observed in several cities of Russian Federation on 10 December on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the conferment of Noble Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Moscow, (...)
Op-Ed Contributor Tibet Is Burning By XU ZHIYONG/The New York Times BEIJING: AROUND noon on Feb. 19, an 18-year-old named Nangdrol set himself on fire near the Zamthang Monastery in the northeast Tibetan town of Barma. In a note left behind, he wrote, “I am going to set myself on fire for the (...)
By Bhuchung K. Tsering weblog.savetibet.org /December 12, 2012 On December 10, 2012, China’s official CCTV broadcast a discussion on Tibetan self-immolation on its Dialogue program. It was titled, “Realities in Tibet,” and obviously, the aim was to drive the narrative on the issue in the way the (...)
mercredi 12 décembre 2012 par jamphel — Flash News
BERNE, 10 December: Kelsang Gyaltsen, Special Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Europe, met with members of the Swiss Parliamentary Group for Tibet in the capital of Berne. The meeting was co-organised by the Parliamentary Group for Tibet and the Swiss-Tibetan Friendship (...)