French Parliamentarians to Visit Dharamsala

A 21-member delegation of the French Deputies of the National Assembly, the Lower Chamber of the French Parliament, will visit Dharamshala from March 21-25, 2005 at the invitation of the Chairman of Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies.

Conservation and Tibetan Pastoralist Culture Not Mutually

China is implementing a program allegedly to protect the source of Asia’s three major rivers – the Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong – on the Tibetan Plateau, known as the Three Rivers’ Headwaters Park or “Sanjiangyuan” in Chinese.

Rights groups accuse China of “hostage” politics

Human Rights groups Friday accused China of using political prisoners as pawns, and warned that the release of Uighur dissident Rebiya Kadeer should not be seen as an improvement in the situation for human rights in the country.