For centuries, Dalai Lamas have served as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan people, even acting as the political leaders of Tibet in the past. Despite still maintaining the role ...
“From a legal standpoint, Tibet has to this day not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation.” – Michael van Walt, lawyer and professor at the Institute for Advanced ...
[LONDON] A coalition of Tibet groups (1) in the UK strongly condemns Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang for his recent explosive firework display in Tibet, which comes days before his major London ...
Our research partner Tibet Watch, has learned that two villages in Jomda County listed for relocation to make way for the Kamtok hydropower dam were subjected to house-to-house checks in March. The ...
Tibet groups call out foreign office for how they referred to the catastrophic flash flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border, with no mention of Tibet or Tibetan people. We represent a coalition of Tibet ...
On 2 July 2025, a statement released by the Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirmed that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue into the future. It further reaffirmed that the ...
The Dalai Lama’s Representative in South Africa, Dhundup Gyalpo, narrowly escaped with his life when his combined home and office was firebombed late at night on 14 October. In a video recording, ...
A five-year-old girl has been seized by Chinese police in central Tibet and separated from her mother. Kundol Sangmo was with her mother, Dekyi, on the street of Takla Klar Town on 28 April when the ...
Years of advocacy and human rights monitoring paid off at the United Nations today as a record number of countries confronted the Chinese government over its policies in Tibet. The setting was China’s ...
The 14th Dalai Lama has released a new book in which he addresses some of the key challenges facing his occupied country Tibet, including the matter of his succession. The book, Voice of the Voiceless ...
On 12 July 2024, President Biden signed into law the historic Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act, commonly known as the Resolve Tibet Act. This landmark legislation builds on the ...
China’s policy of constructing mega dams on Tibet’s rivers and extracting its resources risks social and environmental catastrophe in Tibet and throughout Asia. This is according to a new report ...