Geneva: The Tibet Bureau Geneva will organise a virtual side-event on the human rights situation in Tibet paralleling the 47th UN Human Rights Council on 2 July 2021. The virtual panel discussion will be broadcast live via Tibet Bureau Geneva Facebook page from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm India Time (...)
Dharamshala: The 3rd Tibet Environment Conference organised by the Environment & Development Desk of the Tibet Policy Institute concluded on Sunday with a virtual panel discussion on the Role of Human Rights in Environmental Conservation. The Tibet Environment Conference series is organised (...)
Dharamshala: On International Day Against Drug Abuse on 26 June, the Department of Health, CTA organised a virtual awareness session with school students and counsellors on Substance Use Problems in the Tibetan community in India. This session, led by Ngawang Nyima la from Zhidhey Khangsar, a (...)
Delhi: Ven Kundor Rinpoche sponsored a two-day vaccination drive for Tibetans in Delhi through the facilitation of the Tibetan Settlement Office, Delhi. A total of 390 Tibetans aged 18-44 received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the drive held on 19 and 20 June 2021 at the TCV Day (...)
Beijing is bent on deciding the succession of Tibet’s next Dalai Lama as the present spiritual leader of Tibet Tenzin Gyatso is turning 86 on July 6 and with his advancing age, the question of who will succeed him has become more pressing. Brooke Schedneck, writing in Asia Times said that (...)
First Day: 3rd Tibet Environment Conference DAY – ONE June 25, 2021 – Friday Welcome Address 6:00 PM -6:05PM Tenzin Lekshay, Director, Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration, India Honorary Guest Speaker 6:05 PM – 6:15PM Hon’ble Dana Balcarova, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of (...)
Freetibet.org 25 June 2021 Crackdown in Driru County continues seven years on In April 2021, Chinese authorities carried out several arrests in Driru County in Nagchu, which is governed as part of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region. One Tibetan, Gyajin, has been identified while the names of (...)
By Krishan Varma ANI 27 June 2021 New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): A few weeks ago, in a sober and low-key ceremony on account of the pervasive and raging Wuhan Virus, Penpa Tsering was sworn in as the democratically elected Sikyong or the President of the Dharamshala based Central Tibetan (...)
By Austin Ramzy and Tiffany May NY Times 24 June 2021 HONG KONG — Readers lined up in the rain to buy copies of Apple Daily’s final edition. They rushed to archive its articles online before its website went blank. Other local news outlets plastered their home pages with reports of the (...)
Geneva: In a demonstration held parallel to the ongoing 47th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Liechtenstein submitted a five-point appeal to the UN which includes calls to end China’s cultural genocide in Tibet, its interference in Tibetan (...)