Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour 13 November 2018 | Dmitry Zaks This post has one comment

  Amnesty International on Monday stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over the Myanmar leader's "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the military against Rohingya Muslims. ...

• Tibetan youth dies in self-immolation protest in Amdo Ngawa 9 November 2018 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has one comment

  Exile Tibetans Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering from Kirti monastery in McLeod Ganj, who have contacts in Ngawa, said that Dopo, a 23-year-old, youth died in the fiery protest on 4 November. ...

• Uyghurs, Tibetans jointly hold anti-China protest rally outside UN 6 November 2018 This post has one comment

  A large number of exiled Uyghurs and Tibetans living in Europe on Tuesday carried out a massive anti-China protest rally here. They shouted slogans and labelled China a "terrorist nation". ...

• Trump says Saudi journalist likely dead, warns of ‘severe’ response 19 October 2018 | Sebastian Smith This post has 2 comments

  President Donald Trump said Thursday he now believes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and warned of "very severe" consequences should Saudi Arabia be proven responsible. ...

• India looks to tighten sexual harassment laws: government officials 18 October 2018 | Manoj Kumar This post has no comments yet

  India is considering tightening sexual harassment laws, government officials said on Thursday, after an avalanche of complaints of abuse lodged by women in recent weeks exposed the issue. ...

• US Congress unanimously passes Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act 26 September 2018 This post has 15 comments

  The US Congress has passed a crucial bipartisan bill that seeks to impose a visa ban on Chinese officials who deny American citizens, government officials and journalists access to Tibet. ...

• Own up to mass Muslim detentions, Amnesty tells China 24 September 2018 This post has 2 comments

  China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in its far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said Monday. ...

• Wonderful that European countries welcome refugees: Dalai Lama 18 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 7 comments

  "Most of those refugees think of their own lands as home, but just now there is lots of killing, bullying, and suffering there. That’s why they escaped." ...

• India government to streamline RC and IC surrender procedures 14 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 11 comments

  The Delhi High Court has ordered the Government of India to take immediate action to streamline procedures for processing passport applications of Tibetans entitled to Indian citizenship. ...

• Police rescue 15 labourers from farm in Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement 9 September 2018 This post has no comments yet

  The Mysore district administration rescued 15 North Karnatakan migrant labourers who were allegedly forced to work on a 25-acre ginger a farm in the Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement. ...