By Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat. February 23, 2021. On February 22, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave a speech at the 46th session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. It was the first time a Chinese government official had addressed the U.N.’s top human rights body – and the speech (...)
Dharamshala: The Tibet Policy Institute, the premier research institute of CTA organised a roundtable discussion on the theme of “Foregrounding Tibet” based on its English-language journal published in December. The journal is a compilation of articles from research fellows on a variety of topics (...)
Rawangla, Sikkim: CTA President Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay on his second leg of the official thank you tour arrived at Rawangla Tibetan settlement yesterday after his official meeting with Sikkim CM Shri Prem Singh Tamang. The Tibetan community gave Sikyong a warm reception upon his arrival at (...)
Dharamshala: The 13th working committee of the Khampa Writers Group launched a special publication book entitled ‘Drichu’ to mark the year of gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Library of the Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) on 22 Feb 2021. The fourth edition of ‘Drichu’ was launched (...)
Dharamshala: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected political leader of the Tibetan people today welcomed the US’ renewed bill to ban forced-labour products from Xinjiang. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan bill-prohibiting imports of goods made with forced (...)
Dharamshala: As the 46th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council begins, the UN, EU and Human Rights Desk of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has released a short video highlighting the gravest human rights violations (...)
By Karma Tenzin, Asia Times. February 22, 2021. On February 21, 1952, in what was then East Bengal (renamed East Pakistan in 1956 and Bangladesh in 1971), many students were martyred for voicing their concerns and the protection of their mother language, Bengali, under the government of the (...)
Gangtok: As part of his 13-day long official tour to Tibetan settlements in North East and West Bengal, CTA President Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay arrived yesterday at the Pakyong airport where he was received by the local Tibetan dignitaries and officials including Tibetan Parliamentarian Youdon (...)
Reuters. February 22, 20214:06 AM Updated 6 hours ago LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain’s (...)
Geneva: Paralleling the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council (22 February to 23 March), the Tibet Bureau Geneva will be holding a virtual side-event to discuss the human rights situation in Tibet on 1 March 2021. The virtual panel will be broadcast live via the Tibet TV Facebook page (...)