78% of Tibetan students aged 6 to 18 separated from their families and forced into China’s colonial boarding school system in Tibet UN human rights experts have raised urgent concern… Read More »UN Human Rights Experts Raise “Serious Concern” About China’s Assimilation Policies and Residential Schools in Tibet
GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the repression of fundamental freedoms in China.… Read More »UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China
GENEVA (19 May 2020) – UN human rights experts* have called on China to lift charges against a Tibetan minority human rights defender who is awaiting an appeal hearing against… Read More »UN experts urge China to drop charges against jailed Tibetan minority human rights defender
GENEVA (13 August 2018) – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fourteenth to seventeenth periodic report of China on measures taken… Read More »Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reviews the report of China
GENEVA (7 August 2018) – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an informal meeting with representatives of non-governmental organizations with respect to Latvia and China,… Read More »Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination discusses situation in Latvia and China with civil society
GENEVA (6 June 2018) – UN human rights experts have condemned a five-year jail sentence handed to Mr. Tashi Wangchuk by a Chinese court for his work promoting cultural and… Read More »China: UN human rights experts condemn 5-year jail term for Tibetan activist
GENEVA (21 February 2018) – UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over the ruling by a Chinese court to uphold charges of “incitement to separatism” brought against a human… Read More »China: UN experts denounce the criminalization of linguistic and cultural rights advocacy