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As the 59th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights completed its first week of the annual six-week session, East Timor’s Senior and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Mr. Jose Ramos-Horta and Sweden Foreign Minister Ms. Anna Lindh raised the human rights situation in Tibet in their statements.

Four members of the Swiss Parliamentary Group for Tibet, led by its President Mr. Mario Fehr, are visiting Dharamsala for three days from March 26 to 28, 2003 at the invitation of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies (Tibetan Parliament in Exile), Dharamsala, India.

Tibetan monks offered a workshop Sunday afternoon at the Yellowstone Art Museum. The seven monks are from Tashi Lhunpo, one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet.

A Tibetan monk who is resident lama at a Broward Buddhist center was detained at Miami International Airport Sunday by federal authorities who intend to deport him. Geshe Konchog Kyab was to stay at the airport until he could be put on a flight out of the country

The United States is willing to try toppling Iraq's regime — but not help liberate Tibet from Chinese occupation — because there is "no oil in Tibet," the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile said.

With the inauguration of Songsten Library by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama another valuable chapter has been added to Doon’s fabled Tibetan connection. In his inaugural address the Dalai Lama highlighted the suffering and misfortune of

Actress Drew Barrymore reads a message about peace from the Dalai Lama at the Global Vision for Peace party in Los Angeles, March 20, 2003. The group is a coalition of peace and human rights leaders and concerned individuals that use the global reach of media to further the message of peace. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser )

About 1,000 anti-war protesters demonstrated outside the West Los Angeles Federal Building on Thursday, briefly clashing with police, burning an American flag and forcing the closure of one of the city's busiest intersections at rush hour. At least 14 were arrested.

Top: Climbers Jimmy Chin, Rick Ridgeway, and Conrad Anker haul a custom-built aluminum rickshah through a narrow gorge on China's remote Chang Tang Plateau. The expedition team used rickshahs to transport 30-day supplies of provisions during their month-long trek; Bottom: A newborn chiru calf. Conservationists hope to sway the Chinese government to expand nature preserves to protect the key Tibetan antelope calving ground. (Photographs copyright Galen Rowell, National Geographic Society)

Four mountaineers traversing the high steppes of northern Tibet have succeeded in their quest to locate the key calving ground of the chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope imperiled by poaching. Commercial poachers have devastated chiru