“Taking care of our planet, is a matter of looking after our own home. We can no longer exploit the earth’s resources—the trees, water, air and minerals—with no care for the coming generations. I ...

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, ...

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 ...

70 years ago today, the ‘Seventeen Point Agreement’ was forced onto Tibetans by the newly formed People’s Republic of China. It is one of the most significant moments in modern Tibetan history. By May ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Education of Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture issued a notification in early September this year forbidding Tibetan language classes from primary to high secondary schools in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week saw a well-attended event in parliament, co-organised by Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch and the organisation China Watch. Fiona Bruce, Conservative MP for Congleton, hosted the ...

A famous Tibetan writer named Lobsang Lhundup, also known by his pen name Dhi Lhaden, was secretly arrested by security officials in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in June 2019. Two years have passed ...