Campaign activities
Our dissenting hero for this week, Tenzin Khando, believes that it should be the rights of every individual of any country to be able to challenge, to be able to question and to be able to ask for accountability from their governments and institutions so that the rights of the civilians and citizens can be maintained and protected. “I don’t…
“The first time I actually noticed being kind of restrained for being a Tibetan in Nepal was when I wore that Free Tibet t-shirt or a jacket that had a Tibetan national flag in the front and said Free Tibet at the back and my dad was like you can’t be wearing that in the streets. The cops are going…
“The right to protest is a fundamental human right. The reason we protest is to protect human rights. We protest because we are discontented.” Our #dissentinghero of the week, Sonam Wangdue, is a long time member of the Tibetan Youth Congress. He has worked as a human rights activist and participated in a number of protests for many decades. He…
Our dissenting hero for this week, Drew Pavlou, believes that the protection and promotion of human rights should be a concern of all and that we must always raise our voices against injustices wherever they occur. “[M]any people have asked me what business is it of yours as an Australian how the Chinese Communist Party treats the Tibetans, Uyghurs and…
“Growing up, Tibetan National uprising day remains a very special day in my psyche. It not only reminded me of why our elders escaped into exile. They fought the fight there and they want to continue the fight in exile and as a young person there it also gave me a purpose in life, a country to fight for, a…
“It is high time that we create a strong global coalition amongst Tibetans, East Turkistan, Mongolians, Taiwanese, and Hong Kongers to make a collective effort and work for a greater cause and then make China responsible for all the inhuman subjugation of our people.” Our dissenting hero of this week, Tsering Choedup, who had worked for nearly a decade at…
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for what is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is true”. Our dissenting hero of the week, Tenzin Sonam, quotes Martin Luther King Jr. to underscore the importance of exercising the fundamental right…
“In Tibet or in East Turkistan, we can see that a peaceful protest often leads to the disappearance of the protesters, they would get threatened, harassed, beaten, put into jail or just get killed, while none of the calls of the protest will be heard. And that’s why there were so many fellow Tibetans who chose to burn themselves, and…
26 June is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) joins initiatives across the world to end torture and create a safer world for all to exercise human rights and fundamental freedoms. Torture is one of the persistent human rights issues in Tibet owing to China’s routine practice of…
Dawa Dolma, a university student and Tibet activist, is our dissenting hero for this week, in a campaign that celebrates the steadfast resistance and inspiring defiance shown by Tibetan activists and human rights defenders in the face of oppression and injustices. Dawa Dolma was born and raised in Ladakh, India. She is a political science graduate and her areas of…
“I protest because I believe that when people come together, when entire communities come together, we can move mountains.” Our dissenting hero of the week, Tenzing Dolma, was just 13 when she joined hundreds and thousands of Tibetans and supporters from around the globe to protest the 2008 Beijing Olympics and realized the true power of protesting. “I protest because…