Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Record 65.3 million people displaced last year: UNHCR 20 June 2016 | Stephanie Nebehay This post has no comments yet

  The figure, which jumped from 59.5 million in 2014 and by 50 percent in five years, means that 1 in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee, asylum-seeker, or internally displaced in a home country. ...

• Significance of Tibetan language: Helping them find the fault in their own stars 15 June 2016 | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has no comments yet

  To blame people for their shortcomings is irrational and childlike crankiness. Language is insignificant so long as a person upholds and incorporates Buddhist values into their lives. ...

• Repression expands under ‘Stability Maintenance’ in Tibetan areas 22 May 2016 | Human Rights Watch This post has no comments yet

  The Chinese government’s campaign to suppress peaceful dissent in Tibetan areas has continued to produce a high rate of detentions, prosecutions, and convictions since the outbreak of widespread protests eight years ago. ...

• Chinese ambassador to UK says Tibetan cause is doomed and will never succeed 19 May 2016 | Karen Cheung This post has 3 comments

  “I’ve heard Chinese propaganda all my life but it is still shocking to hear someone telling lies in person about your country and the experiences of your own people." ...

• TYC rallies for release of Panchen Lama 17 May 2016 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has no comments yet

  Forty-five members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) have started a cycle rally to bring awareness about the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who has been out of public view since 1995. ...

• PIL filed in Delhi High Court seeks Indian passport for Tibetans 13 May 2016 | Anshdeep Kaur This post has 16 comments

  In what has all the makings of a landmark case, today a Tibetan Indian filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to ease the bureaucratic hurdles faced by Tibetan Indians when applying for an Indian passport. ...

• India’s Supreme Court orders disaster fund for drought-hit zones 11 May 2016 This post has no comments yet

  Justice Madan B. Lokur also lashed out at the government over a lack of preparedness for the drought, which has struck at least 10 states across the country. ...

• Kirti monk sentenced to over seven years for unknown reason 9 May 2016 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has no comments yet

  Lomik, 28, was arrested by police on the streets of Ngawa county town on 17 April 2015, and detained for over a year without being brought to trial or having his family members informed. ...

• Ajai Shukla: Drama in Dharamshala | Ajai Shukla This post has no comments yet

  Cancelling Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa's visa could have been a mutual face-saving exercise for New Delhi and Beijing. ...

• Beyond the wire: Harry Wu 7 May 2016 This post has 2 comments

  He resolved not only to survive 20 years of torture, but also to ensure that no one forgot China’s laogai and the thousands suffering there. ...