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Brigham Young University students Tyler de Waal and Billy Jackson are spending their summer break running across America, raising awareness of human rights violations and collecting donations along the way.

In the morning of May 29, Tibetan staff from the Tibetan Refugee Transit Center (Nelan Khang) in Kathmandu arrived at the Nepalese Department of Immigration (DOI) jail to pay fines and secure the release into United Nations High Commissioner

Nepali officials should immediately release a group of imprisoned Tibetans to the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Human Rights Watch said today. On May 29, Nepali officials sought to turn the group

According to confirmed information received from Nepal, the 17 Tibetan detainees who risked deportation yesterday were transferred to Hanuman Dhoka Police Station, Kathmandu, at 6p.m. in the evening.

The German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer has reaffirmed Gernmany's 'One-China' policy during a meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying that Tibet is part of the People's Republic. However, a spokesman said Mr Fischer had assured the Tibetan

Under pressure from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Nepal has aborted an attempt to deport 19 Tibetan refugees arrested here to China, the Dalai Lama's office claimed today.

A mining company planning to dig for gold in western China is on collision course with the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s government-in-exile. Sino Gold, an Australian company, wants to mine at Jinkang, in Sichuan province. The company owns

China's human rights record deteriorated in 2002 as government efforts to establish the "rule of law" were undermined by political campaigns and administrative fiats, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Football is a religion, they say, in Brazil. For Tibetans, it's no less. As the two Italian soccer giants AC Milan and Juventus met last night for the final of the UEFA Champion's League, which was won by the former

TCHRD received confirmed information that 18 Tibetan refugee detainees who were arrested in Nepal on 15 April 2003, now face the prospect of imminent deportation following Chinese embassy officials’ intervention in their release process.