Clock ticking on China’s Olympic pledge

These ongoing human rights violations go against the core principles of the Olympic Charter, such as “the preservation of human dignity” and “respect for universal

Workshops on judicial system to Tibetans underway

A month-long workshop on the basic rules and legal procedures governing the Tibetan judicial system is currently being organized by the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC)which began on 26 July.

Tibet’s transformation: A new age for Lhasa

But to others, especially from the West, many of whom recall all too clearly that Tibet was free and independent before a 1950 invasion, development is simply a calculated maneuver on

Kalmykia President proposes to build a stupa in Lhasa

President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov proposed to build a Buddhist stupa in Lhasa to commemorate strong ties that have long existed between Tibet and the Russian Buddhist Republic. The proposal was made during a recent visit of a so-called

Tibet: Your questions answered

The experiences of Manfred Nowak, the UN’s Rapporteur on Torture, illustrates just how unwelcome independent investigators are in China. Tibetans are being increasingly excluded