NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World Human Rights Day on 10 December, a Tibetan Parliamentary delegation submitted to UN officials in Delhi a petition signed by 357,000 people across the world to seek UN’s intervention to resolve the issue of Tibet. The petition was signed by people from all (...)
[Last posted on 11 December 2012 at 12:11 pm] DHARAMSHALA: Thousands of Tibetans and supporters held a peaceful rally in New York on Sunday and urged the UN for its intervention to find a lasting solution to the escalating problems in Tibet. Amid light drizzle, Tibetans and supporters including (...)
December 10, 2012 Tashi Delek, my friends. It is both a pleasure and an honor to send greetings to you from Washington, DC today, the Global Day of Action for Tibet. I regret that I cannot be with you in person this afternoon as you gather before the United Nations in solidarity and in support (...)
By Micheal Martina, Reuters Beijing, 9 December 2012 As the number of self-immolations in restive Tibetan regions rises sharply, Beijing appears to be tightening rules against the anti-China protests despite hopes the new leadership may take a softer line against Tibet. Some experts have said (...)
By S Gopal Puri, Times of India, 11 December 2012 DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has openly challenged China and has invited Chinese authorities to its headquarters while contradicting allegations leveled by Beijing authorities that Tibetan government-in-exile incites (...)
DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) yesterday launched a revamped Tibetan language website on the occasion of the conferment of the Nobel Peace prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and International Human Rights day. Click here The new website has a (...)
By Suswagata Roy / 10 December 2012 [National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSU), Bangalore] Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay paid a visit to the NLSIU campus at Nagarbhavi on 8th December, 2012. Usually to assemble people for a guest speech is a challenge, but for (...)
DHARAMSHALA: BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, today raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of rights violations in Tibet. BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said the Chinese have been carrying out the “grossest” violations of human rights in Tibet over the last 60 years, the (...)
Press Release 10 December 2012 The Central Tibetan Administration invites the Chinese authorities to send an investigative team to Dharamsala, India, to prove their assertion that the self-immolations are incited by the Central Tibetan Administration and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is in (...)
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the uniquely important day on which His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the supreme saviour of all Tibetans – both those left behind in Tibet and the others living in exile – the guiding light who illuminates their paths with sound advices about the dos and don’ts of (...)