The Office of Tibet, Washington DC organized a successful dialogue event between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese/ Tibetan students representing 71 college/universities in NY, NJ and neighboring states. In all, over 300 students participated. The event was held at Phuntsok Deshi Hall of Tibetan Association of NY …
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OOT Washington DC hosts 2019 TSP cohorts
TSP 2019 cohorts with Representative Ngodup Tsering, Secretary Tashi Dhondup (L)and Tenzing Choephel, program coordinator, Tibet Fund (R). Washington DC: The Office of Tibet, Washington DC hosted its first event of the year by hosting recipients of the 2019 Tibet Scholarship Program. TSP is funded by the US State department …
Read More »Office of Tibet’s Year in Review Report
A Year in Review Thanks to His Holiness’s blessings and guidance from Sikyong and Kashag, the Office of Tibet-DC (OOT) has completed yet another productive year in service of Tibet and its people. It is difficult to imagine that a year has gone by already—just like that. Summarizing everything that …
Read More »ICT Calls on China to allow Tibetans to learn in their mother tongue at UN Forum on Minorities
International Campaign for Tibet. December 3, 2019. Read article here. In a statement delivered last week at the 12th Forum on Minority Issues taking place in Geneva on the theme “Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities,” ICT highlighted the difficulties that Tibetans in China face to learn in their …
Read More »Members of Congress to Pompeo: It’s Time to Implement Tibet Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Reps. James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) released a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, signed by 32 Members of Congress, urging the Trump Administration to promptly implement key legislation passed by Congress to guide United States policy on Tibet. Independent …
Read More »Chinese Embassy Condemns Sikyong’s visit to Lithuania
Dharamshala: CTA President Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s visit to Lithuania once again triggered criticism from the Chinese Embassy in Lithuania. In a press release issued this afternoon, the embassy of China in Lithuania strongly opposed and openly condemned the press conference organized by Andrius Navickas in the Seimas this morning where …
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