Tag Archives: Human Rights
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Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
13 November 2018 | Dmitry Zaks
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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. ...
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Tibetan youth dies in self-immolation protest in Amdo Ngawa
9 November 2018 | Tibet Sun Newsroom
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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. ...
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Uyghurs, Tibetans jointly hold anti-China protest rally outside UN
6 November 2018
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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". ...
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Trump says Saudi journalist likely dead, warns of ‘severe’ response
19 October 2018 | Sebastian Smith
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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. ...
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India looks to tighten sexual harassment laws: government officials
18 October 2018 | Manoj Kumar
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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. ...
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US Congress unanimously passes Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act
26 September 2018
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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. ...
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Own up to mass Muslim detentions, Amnesty tells China
24 September 2018
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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. ...
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Wonderful that European countries welcome refugees: Dalai Lama
18 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal
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"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." ...
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India government to streamline RC and IC surrender procedures
14 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal
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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. ...
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Police rescue 15 labourers from farm in Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement
9 September 2018
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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. ...