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The University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing is offering for the first time a course on Traditional Tibetan Medicine: Ethics, Spirituality, and Healing.

Prime Minister John Howard's failure to tackle human rights issues in China undermines Australia's bid to lead the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights Watch said today.

The United States accused China on Thursday of backsliding on human rights promises that led U.S. officials to drop a resolution criticizing Beijing's record at a U.N. gathering.

Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello Photo: unhchr.org

The Central Tibetan Administration expressed its deep regret over the demise of Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello while serving in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

Your Excellency, I am shocked and deeply distressed that the UN Office in Baghdad has been attacked and that many people, including Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN Envoy in Iraq have been killed and many others injured by a bomb blast.

The rarely seen boy endorsed by China as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has completed an 11-day tour of northwestern China, state media said Wednesday.

Chinese authorities have unexpectedly rejected a request from the Tibetan government in exile for a group of prominent exiled Tibetans to visit China, including the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the Tibetan nomads from Golog and Yushul “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (“TAP”) face risk of relocation and threat to their traditional nomadic culture.

Aftermath of floods in Yushu. Photo : The Jinpa Trust