Tibet

HRIC joins 320 NGOs in global call for international human rights monitoring mechanisms on China

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An open letter to: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, UN Member States. We, the undersigned organizations, join together to call for an international mechanism to address the Chinese government’s human rights violations, and urge you to...

September 9, 2020

Open Letter

Government Accountability

NGOs Call for Unconditional Release of Tashi Wangchuk, Tibetan Language Advocate

Dear Chairman Xi, We are writing to you on International Mother Language Day, a day to embrace and enjoy cultural and linguistic diversity and multilingualism. Every year since 2000, this day has been marked around the world with the aim of promoting peace and preserving mother tongues, one of the...

February 21, 2019

Joint Statements

Access to Justice

HRIC Statement on Tashi Wangchuk

[Delivered at a rally jointly organized by the U.S. Tibet Committee, Dokham Chushi Gangdruk of New York and New Jersey, Regional Tibetan Youth Association of New York and New Jersey, and Students for a Free Tibet, NYC] Human Rights in China protests and condemns the prolonged-detention and...

January 8, 2018

Statement

Citizen Participation

Letter to President Obama

President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 We write regarding the state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24-25, 2015. Our organizations have worked to help promote and defend human rights in China for decades, and are deeply...

September 9, 2015

Joint Statements

Access to Justice

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

This book’s sub-title hints at Emily T. Yeh’s main point: Tibet is being transformed by the Chinese occupation, which Beijing maintains is an act of generosity, even a gift, while Tibetans experience the occupation as oppression. This gives rise to one of Ms. Yeh’s propositions drawn from the...

July 25, 2014

China Rights Forum