Tibetan identity
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China’s New ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Condemned by Rights Group as Threat to Tibetan Identity
Advocacy organization Tibet Action Institute (TAI) has strongly condemned the passage of China’s new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” warning that the legislation formalizes policies that could accelerate the erasure of Tibetan identity, language, and culture.
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UN Experts Warn of China’s Forced Labour Imposed on Tibetans inside Tibet
United Nations human rights experts have raised grave concerns over widespread and systematic forced labour imposed on Tibetans living in Tibet, warning that policies enforced by the Chinese state under the pretext of “poverty alleviation” are coercive in nature and are accelerating the destruction of Tibetan society, culture, and traditional livelihoods.
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China’s Push to Justify Residential School Policy Draws Global Condemnation as Tibet’s Language and Culture Face Extinction
In a move widely seen as an attempt to counter mounting international criticism, the Chinese government recently convened an “International Conference on Residential School Education and Highland Development” in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, to defend its controversial boarding school policy that has forcibly separated nearly one million Tibetan children from their families.
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French Museum Reverts to “Tibet” After Protests Over “Xizang” Labeling Mandated by China
In a significant victory for Tibetan activists, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris has committed to reverting to the use of “Tibet” instead of “Xizang” in its exhibits. The term “Xizang,” aggressively promoted by the Chinese government as a tool to erase their cultural and linguistic heritage.
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2 Tibetan students arrested at school for opposing only Chinese instruction
According to RFA, In the province of Qinghai in northwestern China, two Tibetan students have been held accused of not using the Chinese language as the only teaching medium in Tibetan schools. Gyuldrak and Yangrik had challenged a new Chinese education policy that would require only Chinese-language instruction at middle school. The two 19-year-old inhabitants,…
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China Wants to Destroy Core Tibetan Identity: Former Dalai Lama Envoy
The former envoy to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has told the German parliament that China wants to destroy the core of Tibetan identity. The former envoy has told at a hearing in the German Bundestag in Berlin on May 8, 2019 according to the report by International Campaign for Tibet.
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Tibetans Can Surrender Indian Passports Without Penalty: Official
Tibetans can surrender Indian passports without penalty said an official according to a recent report in the Hindustan Times. Since the high court ruling allowing the Tibetans born in India between January 26, 1950 and July 1, 1987 be treated as Indian citizens by birth and permitted for seeking Indian passports.