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A global congress of the world’s largest political youth organisation has passed a resolution calling on the world community to take greater responsibility in preventing the ongoing wave of self-immolations inside Tibet. The gathering reaffirmed “support for an independent Tibet and condemn its illegal occupation

More than a week after the daring escape of one of China’s best-known dissidents, Chen Guangcheng from his house arrest, China is yet to publicly acknowledge the incidence that has once again raised serious questions about the country’s failing rights record.

The National Council of Churches in India, at its recent assembly held every four years, adopted a statement on Tibet expressing the council’s support for Tibet’s “struggle for freedom against the occupation of China.”

Tibetans in the exile seat of Dharamshala commemorated the 14th anniversary of the ‘Tibetan Martyr’s Day’ to pay homage to fellow Tibetans who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Tibet, Sunday. The day is observed in honour of Thupten Ngodup, the first known Tibetan who set himself ablaze on April 29, 1998

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama told an international gathering of parliamentarians that the Tibetan spirit is becoming stronger amidst growing Chinese repression in Tibet.

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday afternoon in his Parliament Hill office for about 20 minutes.

Two years after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake devastated the eastern Tibetan region of Yushul, killing almost 3000 people, thousands continue to live in tents as local Tibetans accuse Chinese authorities of confiscating their ancestral lands.

In continuing mass protests in Tibet, around 3000 Tibetans carried out a peaceful march in front of Chinese government buildings in Zogchen, Dege region of eastern Tibet on Wednesday.

Some of the most loved and widely respected world leaders attending the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago have pledged their continued support to the elected Tibetan leadership and the Tibetan cause.

A new report by a Tibet advocacy group has found that China’s “systematic and persistent” policies of “cultural repression and destruction” in Tibet contained “elements of cultural genocide” and warned that if unchecked, these policies present risk factors for “conventional genocide.”