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 ...

Zhang Yadi, from Changsha, Hunan, had been studying in France and was awarded a scholarship for a Master’s in Anthropology at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, ...

Tibet Watch has received updates on mass demolitions carried out late last year at the Tibetan Buddhist community of Larung Gar. More than 1,000 monks and nuns are reported to have been expelled from ...

A biography of a dedicated and beloved Tibetan scholar, who devoted his life to preserving Tibetan language and culture in the face of China's colonialism. On February 17, 2025, Tibet lost one of its ...

Tibet Watch has learned that, yesterday, 40-year-old Tsewang Norbu was arrested by police while on a pilgrimage to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. According to external sources contacted by Tibet Watch, ...

A university student has been detained in central Tibet. Chinese authorities in Riwoche County arrested Choedon (ཆོས་སྒྲོན།) on 13 February and she has not been seen since. Choedon hails from the ...

Tibetans from around the world have today issued a joint statement, calling for a moratorium on resource extraction and megadevelopment projects in Tibet. A video jointly created by Tibetans from Free ...

On 8 July, a week after the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) centenary celebration, Chinese authorities in Golog, eastern Tibet, ordered the closure of Sengdruk Taktse middle school in Darlak County.

Demand for an international investigation grows following the death of beloved Tibetan Lama in Vietnam and cremation without family consent. 21 April 2025 – Global Tibet groups voice vehement ...

In October 2021, Chinese police authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region arrested three Tibetan children from their boarding school in Markham County (སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་།) under the pretext of ...

Tibetans and activists celebrated a campaign victory last week as Special Rapporteurs from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially raised concerns around ...

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 ...