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Just two weeks shy of her 86th birthday, Shirley Horey is starting a new chapter in an extraordinary life. She has shaved her head, and packed away all her clothes; soon she will even have a new name.

Organisers of a Paris concert aimed at raising money for Tibetans exiled in India and Nepal cancelled the gig hours before it was to start Tuesday because not enough tickets had been sold.

Mr. Abdelfattah Amor (Tunisia), the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of Religion or Belief of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), in a report to the 58th session of the UN General Assembly

A new tool of fighting repression and hunger, according to Students for a Free Tibet, is the repression of hunger. On Wednesday, SFT concluded a 14-day fast with a Day of Action in protest of the imprisonment of two Tibetan nuns.

The International Union of Socialist Youth in corporation with Rashtra Seva Dal and Yuva Janata Dal of India facilitated the whole conference of Asia Pacific meeting of IUSY in Mumbai from 10-12 Oct 2003.

John Howard with Hu Jintao earlier this year (AP file)

Just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives, the Chinese embassy is embroiled in a political row amid claims it is trying to gag MPs wishing to speak out over the sensitive Tibetan issue.

Lhasa has been transformed in recent years

It is just after dawn in the Lhasa valley and tens of thousands of Tibetan pilgrims are streaming up a mountainside. Many have walked for days, even weeks to be here.

The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, looks skyward as he adjusts his garment before a news conference at a Paris hotel, October 13, 2003. (REUTERS/John Schults)