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Tibetan leader highlights Tibet's global relevance in London, urges youth
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Tibetan leader Penpa Tsering, during a UK visit, urged Tibetan youth to understand their history, stressed Tibet's global importance, and called for dialogue with China. He also warned against blind cooperation with China, highlighting the need to protect Tibetan identity and values.
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Nepali artists condemn KIMFF for using China's term 'Xizang' to refer to T
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Nepali artists have condemned KIMFF for using the term "Xizang" for Tibet, calling it Chinese propaganda. They urged the festival to apologise and uphold independent values, warning that such choices erase Tibetan identity and aid censorship.
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Tibet Action Institute alleges China's boarding schools erasing Tibetan id
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A report by the Tibet Action Institute reveals that nearly one million Tibetan children are forcibly placed in Chinese state boarding schools where they face indoctrination, cultural suppression, and mistreatment. The Institute urges global action to protect Tibetan culture and children's ri
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Tibetan leader warns of cultural erasure, pushes Tibetan language educatio
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
During a visit to the Kham Kathok Tibetan Settlement in Sataun, Sikyong Penpa Tsering warned of China's continued efforts to erase Tibetan identity and urged stronger Tibetan language education for children in exile, while also highlighting a new digital archive project to preserve sacred te
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Tibetan representative highlights China's suppression at UNHRC side event
Updated : 11 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The Tibetan Representative focused on preserving Tibetan identity, culture, and education, highlighting the need to preserve Tibet's distinct identity because there is a genuine risk that it won't last.
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Tibetan leaders discuss strategies to preserve culture amid harsh Chinese
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The 12th Education Council and Advisory Committee's annual conference in Dharamshala focused on the impact of Chinese policies on Tibetan culture and discussed strategies for preservation. Sikyong Penpa Tsering highlighted recent US support for Tibet, while officials stressed the importance
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Tibetan President in exile stresses preservation of Tibetan identity amids
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, speaks in Darjeeling about the preservation of Tibetan identity amid China's misinformation campaigns and the need for a peaceful resolution to the Tibet-China conflict.
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Bengaluru: Panelists urge global action for Tibetan rights amid growing pr
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education (DLIHE) and the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration hosted a panel discussion titled "Why Tibet Matters." The panelists engaged in a robust dialogue on Tibetan identity and rights, explorin
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Tibetan leader sounds alarm on cultural identity threats from intensified
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Sikyong Penpa Tsering has emphasised that the Communist Party of China (CCP) is making systematic efforts to suppress Tibetan identity, including shutting down cultural and religious centres.
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China started destroying monasteries after occupying Tibet: Former Tibetan
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Former Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has accused China of exploiting Tibetan identity, language and culture since the Chinese troops entered the Tibet region on October 7, 1950.
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"Vocational training" programmes in China threaten Tibetan identity, carry
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been 'transferred' from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced," the UN experts said.
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China denies UN experts' claim of forcibly separating Tibetan children fro
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
China has come under huge attack from UN experts for its alleged move to forcibly assimilate the Tibetan identity into the Han culture. This has come even as China faces a tough time in denying the truth on human rights violations of Uyghurs, Muslim ethnic groups living in the north-western
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