Exile

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.

Debate Over Debates: Kaydor Calls for Debates Between Sikyong Candidates Ahead of 2026 Election

By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 20 Nov: Veteran Tibetan activist Jamyang Tenzin arrived in Dharamsala today, completing his seventh and final Tibet Awareness Solo Cycle Rally. Jamyang’s solo cycle rally, held under the slogan “No matter how happy life in a foreign land may be, one must never forget their homeland. Tibetans must stand united in solidarity,” was scheduled to conclude on 10 December, marking the anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. However, due to security concerns following the recent blast in Delhi, Jamyang told Tibet Express that he was unable to campaign in many of the locations he had originally planned to visit.

DHARAMSALA, 19 Nov: Former Tibetan political prisoner Atsok Lukar Jam, based in Australia, says the way the Occupied Peoples Forum (OPF) was conducted and the activists’ courage, determination and continued commitment to resisting oppressive authoritarian regimes left a lasting impression on him after returning from the conference held in Auckland, New Zealand from 11-13 November. Lukar took a special liking to the simple, basic, non-luxurious setting that he says was exactly right for a conference of stateless peoples. 

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 19  Nov: Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang (Kaydor) has announced his candidacy for the position of Sikyong, the political head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in the 2026 Tibetan general election. The announcement, made through a video on YouTube, comes at a time when there is a noticeable lack of candidates for the Sikyong position within the Tibetan democratic polity.