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Four women Nobel laureates to boycott summit in South Africa

Four Nobel women peace laureates have refused to attend the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa from October 13-15

China sentences Uighur professor to life in prison

Ilham Tohi, an outspoken scholar who had advocated friendship between Han Chinese and Uighur was jailed in January this year for his criticism of China’s handling of alleged Uighur activists involved in

Dalai Lama reiterates call for autonomy

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has reiterated his call for genuine autonomy within the People's Republic of China and expressed his happiness over the results of the referendum in Scot

Why the Scottish Referendum was great for Tibet

Many Tibetans eagerly followed the Scottish independence referendum. Now the results are in and 55% of voters chose to stay with the U.K. We believe that this entire referendum process is a positive developme

Tibetan student immolates self in Tsoe

A Tibetan student died after he set himself on fire outside a police station in Tsoe County in Kanlho prefecture last Wednesday to protest the Chinese governme

Time has come for religious leaders to be “more active”: Dalai Lama

The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today said the time has come for all leaders of the world religions to be “more active” and “serous” in creating religious harmo

A lone protester sentenced to 10 years in prison

Lobsang Gendun, 21, a monk of the Drongsar Monastery, staged a lone protest disrupting official celebrations marking the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of China on July 1, 2014 in P

WeChat leads to arrest of two Tibetans

Two Tibetans were sentenced to heavy jail terms for adding texts to a picture that they shared on WeChat, the China based popular messaging application, reported Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, who

Tibet raised at the 27th session of UN Human Rights Council

Speaking on behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), Tsering Tsomo, Executive Director of TCHRD highlighted the recent Chinese police firing on unarmed Tibetan protesters in Denma in Sershul County, Kardze Tibet

A few more thoughts on the importance of protesting Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit

Resistance is not the cause of repression. Our protests are not the cause of China’s crackdown in Tibet. As long as there is oppression in Tibet, there will be resistance. And as long as there is resista

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