The July 2019 publication of Monthly Translation and Analyses Digest monitoring Chinese government media on Tibet includes the following articles: China promotes assimilation under the guise of education aid program in Tibet Autonomous Region More than 20 percent increase in Chinese cadres dispatched to Tibet China worried rising unemployment among Tibetan college graduates may become a ‘stability’ issue China holds 5th…
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Concluding observations on the combined third and fourth periodic reports of China, adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fourth session (16 September–4 October 2013) Symbol No. CRC/ C/CHN/CO/3-4 The Committee is deeply disturbed by an alarming escalation of self-immolations by Tibetan children and the State party’s failure to prevent such loss…
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China (3 February 2016) Symbol No. CAT/C/CHN/CO/5 The Committee regrets that the recommendations identified for follow-up in the previous concluding observations have not yet been implemented. Those recommendations concerned: legal safeguards to prevent torture; the State Secrets Law and reported harassment of lawyers, human rights defenders and…
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Concluding observations on the second periodic report of China (13 June 2014) Symbol No. E/ C.12/CHN/CO/2 The Committee remains concerned about reports of the high rate of unemployment among persons belonging to ethnic minorities, especially Tibetans, Uighurs and Inner Mongolians, in part due to Han Chinese migration into minority areas. The…
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Concluding observations on the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of China (19 September 2018) Symbol No. CERD/C/CHN/CO/14-17 The Committee is concerned by reports that the broad definition of terrorism, the vague references to extremism and the unclear definition of separatism in Chinese laws could potentially lead to the criminalization of…
Special Rapporteur on the right to food HRC 19th Session (20 January 2012) Symbol No. A/HRC/19/59/Add.1 Threats to resettled nomadic herders and other former rural residents The resettlement policy conducted in the Tibet Autonomous Region has expanded to non-herders, and is aimed at resettling, relocating or rehousing a majority of the Tibetan rural population into newly built concentrated settlements, under…
Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment HRC 25th Session (11 March 2013) Symbol No. A/HRC/25/60/Add.2 S Allegations of arrest and detention of, and alleged excessive use of force against, peaceful demonstrators in the Tibet Autonomous Region, against peaceful student demonstrators from Tsolho Technical School in Gonghe (Chabcha in Tibetan) for the release of…
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief HRC13th Session (16 February 2010) Symbol No. A/HRC/13/40/Add.1 In their urgent appeal of 20 March 2008, the Special Procedure brought to the attention of the Government information they had received regarding reports of violence during demonstrations in the Tibet Autonomous Region and surrounding areas in China, killings of an unconfirmed number of…