WASHINGTON – New legislation by the Chinese government to introduce mandatory “ethnic unity” in Tibet has raised concern among the Tibetan diaspora, with Tibetan leaders warning of demographic change in the autonomous region. “The ethnic unity law passed by Tibet Autonomous Region’s legislature is China’s attempt at the complete Sinicization of …
Read More »Representative Ngodup Tsering wishes the Government of India a happy 71st anniversary of India’s Republic Day. No other country has been as generous to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet as India, and the Office of Tibet wishes all the best for the Ambassador of India and his staffers.
Video Conference with His Holiness & Tibetan students and Chinese students
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 …
Read More »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 …
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