June is globally celebrated as Pride Month globally, honoring the LGBTQIA+ community, promoting equal rights, and celebrating sexual and gender diversity. In observance of...

A year after the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje in Ho Chi Minh City, the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, detention, and death remain shrouded in secrecy....

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expresses deep concern over the adoption of the “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” and its...

Human rights empower people to overcome subjugation and oppression. Regardless of who we are, where we live or what we do, we all want...

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) honours the...

17 May 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet, Jetsun Tenzin Gedhun Yeshi Trinley Phuntsok...

A Tibetan village leader has died from severe torture inflicted during seven months of detention by Chinese authorities, raising grave concerns about the fate...

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) extends its wholehearted support and solidarity to the Canada Tibet Committee as it came under...

On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, TCHRD stands in solidarity with the victims and families of those who have been subjected to unlawful, Chinese state-sanctioned repression through enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, beatings, torture, and inhuman treatment merely based on one's own religious beliefs or cultural identity. 

On the 37th anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Tibetan Youth Congress, Students for Free Tibet and Tibetan Women's Association solemnly commemorates and pays tribute to Tibetan human rights defenders, dissidents, and activists who have endured and continue to endure torture— the severest form of human rights abuse.

On the 29th anniversary of Tibetan spiritual leader Gedhun Choekyi Nyima's enforced disappearance, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy strongly condemns the Chinese government's continued failure to provide information on his whereabouts and reiterates our calls for the authorities to reveal the truth. Despite extensive efforts and calls from the global Tibetan community, international governments and the United Nations for more than two decades, the Chinese government has continued to ignore their calls leaving a deep void in the hearts of the Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. 

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy joins the international community in observing World Press Freedom Day, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 to remind governments to honor their commitments to press freedom and its core principles. However, in Tibet, China's stringent control over information severely curtails press freedom and suppresses expression. Through strict regulations on both foreign and domestic journalists, often resulting in imprisonment and torture, China obstructs international efforts to accurately understand the reality in Tibet. This suppression not only denies Tibetan voices agency but also forcefully suppresses independent publications through bans or extensive censorship.