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September, 2009 | In June 2009, the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies convened a high-level roundtable on Water on the Tibetan Plateau: Ecological and Strategic Implications for the Region. This roundtable brought together water, environmental and security experts from Asia and Europe in the presence of the Dalai Lama. The report “Water on the Tibetan Plateau: Ecological and Strategic Implications for the Region” outlines and summarizes the discussions that were held at the roundtable session with the Dalai Lama. August, 2009 | Human Rights in China (www.hrichina.org) submitted a parallel NGO report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which identified serious challenges faced by China’s rural ethnic groups, including Tibetans. June, 2009 | At the 11 June Human Rights Council meeting to adopt the "Outcome Report on China," part of the required UPR review process for all member states, the Chinese government rejected, without exception, 70 recommendations by UN member states related to human rights abuses in China. This includes all recommendations related to freedom of expression and freedom of association, independence of the judiciary, guarantees for the legal profession, protection of human rights defenders, rights of ethnic minorities, reduction of the death penalty, abolition of reeducation-through-labor, prohibition of torture, media freedom, and effective remedies for discrimination. The statement of Human Rights Watch follows. June, 2009 | China has made a mockery of its commitment to the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review process, Human Rights Watch said today. May, 2009 | This bold and important report by a group of Chinese scholars in Beijing challenges the official position that the Dalai Lama “incited” the protests that broke out in Tibet in March 2008, and outlines key failings in the policy of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on Tibet. The report is the first such analysis from inside China and comes at a time of crackdown in Tibet when the PRC government is taking an increasingly hardline position against the Dalai Lama. October, 2008 | Analyses the present autonomy arrangement in Tibet and recommends a change in China’s policy toward Tibet to better conform to national commitments and international obligations. August, 2008 | Explores the meaning of sovereignty and self determination in International Law and its relevance to Tibet. August, 2008 | Smith discusses the impact of the March 2008 unrest in Tibet and the consequences for both Tibetan and Chinese nationalism. July, 2008 | Documents how foreign correspondents and their sources continue to face intimidation and obstruction by government officials when they document social unrest. Based on more than 60 interviews with correspondents in China between December 2007 and June 2008. July, 2008 | Analyses various violations of human rights made by the Nepali authorities, particularly the police, against Tibetans who take part in peaceful demonstrations. July, 2008 | Concentrates on areas such as: the continuing use of the death penalty; abusive forms of administrative detention; the arbitrary detention, imprisonment, ill-treatment and harassment of human rights defenders, including journalists and lawyers; and the censorship of the internet in China. July, 2008 | Describes the relationship between China, Britain and Tibet in the early twentieth century, and shares the unique experiences of the first European women to be invited to Lhasa by the 13th Dalai Lama. June, 2008 | In this article, Cheng Li highlights the challenges the CCP faces in governing a Han-dominant but multi-ethnic China, looking at the situation of Tibetan, Uighur and Mongolian cases. The author writes that "how top leaders handle ethnic tensions and recruit ethnic minorities into the political establishment will be not only crucial determinants of social stability going forward, but also major criteria for China's international image." June, 2008 | Focuses on the media black-out that is still effective in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and the Tibetan-populated areas and documents the difficulties of foreign tourists and journalists to access Tibet since the outbreak of March Uprising in 2008. April, 2008 | Discusses current issues in Tibet and reviews Tibet’s historical and political status with respect to China. It also analyses U.S. relations with Tibet since the 1980s. October, 2007 | Assesses the historical record and current practices of autonomy arrangement in Tibet to argue that a form of autonomy grounded in the Chinese Constitution and international human rights practice may offer a path out of the current dispute. July, 2007 | Investigates the Chinese government’s policy of forced resettlement and its violation of economic and social rights of Tibetan herders, through interviews conducted between July 2004 and December 2006 with some 150 Tibetans from the areas directly affected. December, 2005 | Focuses on what Chinese authorities intend to accomplish politically and diplomatically in the Himalayan region through 'development in a peaceful environment' and how this policy could create ties between the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Himalayan states and regions. December, 2005 | Argues that although a combination of grievances contributes to ethnic discontent, religious/cultural differences, resource distribution, discrimination, and self-governance factors are the most important explanations. December, 2005 | Discusses the Tibetan position on autonomy and the status of the Sino-Tibet dialogue. |
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Video: Channel 4 Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet
Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to the homeland he risked his life escaping from to carry out secret filming with the award-winning, Bafta-nominated director Jezza Neumann. At the risk to its makers of imprisonment and deportation, this Dispatches film reveals the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation in Tibet, uncovering evidence of the 'cultural genocide' described by the Dalai Lama.
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A Great Mountain Burned by Fire: China’s Crackdown in Tibet
March 10, 2009, marked the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa that led to the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet, and the first anniversary of an unprecedented wave of overwhelmingly peaceful protests that swept across the Tibetan plateau, to be met by a violent crackdown.
Since March 10, 2008, the Chinese government has engaged in a comprehensive cover-up of the torture, disappearances and killings that have taken place across Tibet combined with a propaganda offensive against the exiled Tibetan leader, Nobel Peace Laureate the Dalai Lama.
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