Human Rights Updates

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hunting endangers Tibet’s wild life

Phuntsok reports that unique animal species in Thalung areas in Gyama Shang under Meldro Gonkar county are threatened with execution not just by mining,...
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Business overrides human rights in the UN

Britain recently announced that it would join Denmark in backing a resolution to be submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights. The resolution...
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Tibetan tour guides sacked

Tibetans working as government tour guides in Lhasa have lost their jobs because of unauthorised trips to India. Between 69 and 72 tour guides,...
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Profile: Nun receives 12 years solely for her expression of beliefs

Tibet continues to face the ruthless crackdown by the Chinese Government on any pro-independence activist. Because Tibetan politics is so closely linked with Tibetan...
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More Protests

On the 15th day of Tibetan New Year (8th February) two monks held a short protest in front of the Jhokhang (Central Cathedral). Not...
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Violations in Monasteries and Sacred Sites

A monk interviewed in early April this year in Dharamsala gave a disturbing account of new incidents of violations of cultural and religious rights...
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New Arrests

Ngawang Sangpo is a 31-year-old from Medro Gongkar County under Lhasa City. A monk at Drepung Monastery, Ngawang was arrested on 5 September 1996...
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Protecting the Child?

The right to education is guaranteed in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child to which the People's Republic of China is...
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“Between the sky and the Earth where communist China rules, no one is to rejoin any monastery”

These were the last words spoken to Norbu and the monks of Drigung Thil Monastery before they were expelled. Below is his account of...
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Legal appeals in China’s criminal law

The right to appeal is internationally recognised (International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 14(5)). Recently introduced amendments to China's criminal law makes...
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Economic discrimination

Reports of economic conditions in Dayab, Chamdo region, reveal that Tibetan farmers, who depend solely on seasonal farming of barley, have had to find...
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Disappearance

A 23-year-old Ramoche monk called Loedo, from Dayab, has been reported missing for eight months. Loedo, who had joined Ramoche Monastery in 1993, was reportedly...
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