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Dharamsala 25th April 2017: Organised by three NGOs, Tibetans in Dharamsala celebrated Panchen lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima’s 28th birthday to highlight his case of 22 years of disappearance. During the event, the organisers made clear…

Tibet is the source of most of Asia’s great rivers and the estimated 1.4 billion people across 11 large downstream nations who depend on them are threatened, not only by China’s aspirations for dam building,…

Activist from Students for a Free Tibet India staged a bold protest against Chinese president Xi Jinping during the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa. The summit marks his second visit to India in the last…

On April 15th we screened CITIZENFOUR, a film about Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. After the film, we discussed surveillance in China and Tibet. The US and China both have enormous surveillance capabilities,…

Today over 100 Tibetans, Indian and foreign supporters observed World Water Day with a series of creative events to shine a light on China’s rampant environmental degradation of Tibet’s rivers and environment. Jointly organized by…

A 40-year old Tibetan woman, Norchuk, set herself ablaze at 3:30 am on Friday (March 6) in her village in Ngaba, Eastern Tibet. She succumbed to her burns and died on the spot. Her body…

A hugely successful talk by anthropologist and historian Dr. Carole McGranahan at Jimmy's Italian Kitchen. Through a simple, human narrative, Dr. McGranahan talked about the story of the Chushi Gangdruk fighters - their hopes, fears, bravery and…