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China protested a U.S. resolution prepared for a United Nations commission that criticizes the Chinese government for ``backsliding'' on human rights.

Free Tibet Campaign welcomes today's announcement by the United States that it plans to introduce a resolution critical of China at the 60th United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR).

U.S. State Department officials notified the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) this morning that the United States will introduce a resolution critical of China's human rights record at the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which is currently meeting in Geneva.

The Chinese government routinely abuses national laws and international standards in the course of executing thousands of people each year, says a new report by Amnesty International.

Ancient healing techniques from across the world would come together in the hills of Sikkim this March. The Sikkim chapter of the Holistic Health Promotion and Allied Education Foundation’s will host the next World Health Congress in Gangtok on 27 March.

Dharamsala, A veteran Tibetan political prisoner, who is currently with the Dalai Lama here in Himachal Pradesh, says he supports the spiritual leader's middle path approach to the Tibet issue.

Armenians and Tibetans, two peoples who "share the same fate," banded together last Friday in a gesture of solidarity. "The noble Tibetan people are also victims of injustice and a cultural genocide to this day, while the rest of the world looks on," said Azad Chichmanian

A nervous salesman spreads out five shawls on the bed in a Delhi hotel. He thinks he is dealing with an affluent Dubai businessman and his American wife. In fact, the shawls are contraband and his 'customers' are a trustee of the Wildlife Trust of India and an Observer reporter.

A ROW has broken out in the Church of Ireland over a request for a group of Tibetan monks to perform at an arts festival in Down Cathedral. A senior cleric, Canon Jonathan Barry, has written to the Church of Ireland Gazette

The People's Republic of China in a written comment transmitted to the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights (dated 10 December 2003) has accused the Commission's expert on education for making "biased and irresponsible" comment on the status of education in Tibet.