By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 3 Oct: Human Rights First, a US-based human rights advocacy group, has announced that Oscar-nominated actor and longtime Tibet advocate Richard Gere will receive its inaugural Visionary Award. The honour recognises his lifelong commitment to defending the rights and dignity of oppressed people around the world.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA, 2 Oct: The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), commonly known as the Tibetan government-in-exile, today celebrated the 156th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by honouring his principles of non-violence and satyagraha, values that the exile polity upholds as guiding inspirations in its own struggle.
DHARAMSALA, 1 Oct: As Tibet remains under Chinese occupation and continues to be ranked as the least free place in the world, China marked the 76th founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China(PRC) today with a flag-raising ceremony held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the capital of China. This was at the very square where 39 years ago today, the Chinese government violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters on June 3–4, 1989. Unabated, China continues to remain a “global threat” to press freedom, with systematic repression in China and its occupied territories and its propaganda reaching worldwide through its transnational repression.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 30 Sept: UN experts have raised serious concerns over the erasure of the name “Tibet” in French museums, declaring that such actions contribute to the sinicization of Tibetan heritage by the Chinese government and undermine the rights of the Tibetan people.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 29 Sept: The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest Tibetan organisations in exile advocating for the full independence of Tibet, commenced its 19th General Body Meeting(GBM) today at the Lower TCV School hall, with around 200 members from 45 regional chapters in attendance.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 24 Sept: The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Dharamsala, today strongly condemned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang and the outdoor clothing brand Arc’teryx, owned by Chinese sportswear giant Anta Sports, for their reckless and insensitive “Ascending Dragon” firework display, which was conducted along mountain ridges in Ralung Village, Shigatse, in occupied Tibet.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 23 Sept: Four Pemakopa (Pad-ma dkod pa) youths from the Tibetan community in Canada have launched the 6th Peace Rally Marathon for Tibet on Monday, running from Ottawa to Toronto. The initiative calls on the Canadian government and the international community to honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday, safeguard Tibet as the “Third Pole,” and to advocate for the release of Tibetan political prisoners in Chinese custody.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSHALA 22 Sept: Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx, owned by Chinese company Anta and renowned Chinese pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang issued public apologies on Sunday after facing fierce backlash for staging a high altitude fireworks display at over 5,500 meters in Shigatse, occupied Tibet, with environmentalists and rights groups condemning the spectacle as reckless destruction of one of the world’s most climate sensitive ecosystems.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 19 September: The Centre for Middle Way Initiative commemorated the official adoption of the Middle way policy by the Tibetan parliament in exile on 18 September 1997 in pursuit of a negotiated solution to the Tibetan issue with China, marking the transition of its policy from seeking independence for Tibet to seeking genuine autonomy as enshrined in the Chinese constitution, on Thursday.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 19 Sept: The Chief Representative Office (CRO) of Ladakh in the Sonamling Settlement today hosted over 40 trainers from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at the CRO Hall for an awareness programme on the life and works of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet — an initiative that also resonates with Tibet’s historical assertions at a time of heightened Chinese expansionism along the Indo-Tibet border.
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