Author: Tibet Express Newsdesk

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 9 Dec: Days ahead of the 2025 International Human Rights Day, the International Tibet Network (ITN), a coalition of 148 global Tibet related NGOs, has called on UN High Commissioner Volker Türk to “break his silence” on China’s colonial boarding schools for Tibetan children in occupied Tibet. The coalition argues that these institutions are designed to separate Tibetan children from their families and identities in order to assimilate them into the dominant Han culture.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 5 Dec: The Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) today commemorated the 30th anniversary of the ‘Silent Protest’ staged in Beijing by a delegation of exiled Tibetan women during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. The commemorative event was held at the Tibetan Settlement Hall in McLeod Ganj.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 4 Dec: The Education Department of the Central Tibetan Administration, commonly referred to as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, will use its corpus fund to provide scholarships for Tibetan students “next week,” as the USAID grant of 3 crore rupees for 400 students faces delays—possibly extending into next year—due to the recent US government shutdown.

DHARAMSALA, 3 Dec: Three candidates for the 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPIE) held a press conference today at the Dharamsala Tibetan Settlement Office Hall in McLeod Ganj, aiming to stimulate discourse within the Tibetan democratic polity. The candidates expressed serious concern that the exile community has remained largely indifferent and silent since the official start of the election process two months ago.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 2 Dec: Khedroob Thondup, the Dalai Lama’s nephew and the son of the late Gyalo Thondup, has announced a decisive break from the Middle Way Approach- the official policy of the Central Tibetan Administration and the approach that he “once supported,” declaring that he will now “only accept complete independence for Tibet” from China’s colonial rule.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 1 Dec: The Chinese delegation at the United Nations (UN) 18th  Forum on Minority Issues, held from 27-28 November, sought to suppress the statement of the exiled Tibetan representative. The representative addressed the realities of China’s colonial residential school system in occupied Tibet and its broader campaign to assimilate Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and their histories into the dominant Han-Chinese narrative.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 25 Nov: The Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA), in collaboration with the Women Empowerment Desk of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), launched its campaign to end digital violence against women and girls today as part of the annual global observance of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The event took place at the main square in McLeod Ganj.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSHALA, 24 Nov: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) France and the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress staged their 46th protest on Sunday in Paris, demonstrating in front of the Guimet Museum over its continued refusal to remove the Chinese colonial term “Himalayan World” from its Nepal–Tibet exhibition. Tibetan protesters argue that the museum’s 2024 nomenclature change is part of a broader pattern aligned with China’s ongoing colonial occupation of Tibet and its efforts to erase the name Tibet and its identity.