Tibet Watch works to promote the human rights of the Tibetan people through monitoring, research and advocacy. We are partner organisation to @freetibetorg
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Tibet Watch researchers collect information from a network of brave individuals committed to ensuring that the world hears the truth about China's repression, and Tibetan resistance.
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Through his film, 'Daughter of the Light', Khashem Gyal shows the transformations that modernization in #Tibet has brought, quietly pointing to relationship breakdowns other challenges in Tibetan pastoral communities chineseyouthstandfortibet.su…
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A growing body of reports from Tibet Watch points to systematic restrictions on language culture and religious practice in Tibet.
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#Tibet #CulturalRights #HumanRights #FreeTibet
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New book 'A Tibetan Girl Called Ata' by author Zhang Pu tells a story of love between Chinese man #Tibetan woman who 'has learned to live in a Chinese city w/o being absorbed by it' his struggles to understand her Tibetan identity: the-european.eu/story-60650/…
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How winds above #Tibet quietly replenish water for nearly 2 billion people: new scientific research phys.org/news/2026-05-tibet-…
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2 reports released by US State Dept confirm severity of China’s repression in Tibet highlight need for greater efforts to confront it but reflect insufficient implementation of long-standing, bipartisan Tibet legislation @SaveTibetOrg savetibet.org/state-departme…
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May 12
How do Tibetans express dissent under the watchful eyes of an authoritarian state? Timothy Thurston, in his book "Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo", explores this question through Tibetan comedians and rappers who use satire as a tool of resistance.
Read Palden Gyal's review on our website: himalmag.com/culture/satire-…
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'China has built a machine that reaches into the mouths of toddlers pulls out their mother tongue. As a Tibetan I can tell you what language loss means for a people. It is not just words. It is everything.' Tenzin Rabga of @freetibetorg theguardian.com/global-devel…
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Tibetan artists have mastered the use of humour and satire to deliver one of the most sustained and remarkably inventive forms of cultural resistance under Chinese rule: @taoyinkui writes in Himal himalmag.com/culture/satire-…
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The policy bans religious content in schools, pressures parents to speak Chinese at home, and requires children to identify with the 'China nation'. HRW warns Tibetan language & culture could be lost within a single generation hrw.org/report/2026/05/04/st…
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‘From the land of snow, with hands folded in faith, I await the noble one, the protector whose eyes never close.’ After writing this verse, monk Samten Gyatso was imprisoned. Our new report documents intensifying repression tibetwatch.org/disappeared-t…
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The CCP wants to compel every #Tibetan to weigh, day after day, whether their most ordinary cultural or religious actions might inadvertently cross a red line. Tibet Watch report cited: voachinese.com/a/new-report-…
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May 1
Journalist friends: @hrw will be releasing a new report on Tibetan preschools on Tues May 5 Asia time. Please PM for an embargoed copy.
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In Ngaba, #Tibet, children can no longer register as 'Tenzin' — the Dalai Lama's name, meaning 'holder of the Dharma'. It fits a wider pattern: boarding schools are being used to sever children from their language, family faith tibetwatch.org/chinas-legal-…
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Eight UN experts called on #China to account for new legislation that escalates Xi Jinping’s campaign of forced assimilation in Tibet and extends its reach beyond PRC borders. Our analysis: tibetwatch.org/chinas-legal-… 1/3
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In a rare joint statement, the UN Rapporteurs state that China’s new ‘Ethnic Unity’ law risks inciting transnational repression, intensifies risks to parents and educators, and contravenes existing Chinese laws and international commitments. 2/3
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China's legal warfare is a tool to hollow out Tibetan Buddhist identity — part of Xi Jinping's drive to erase religion and culture as barriers to state control. Its reach beyond PRC borders puts Tibetans worldwide at heightened risk. tibetwatch.org/chinas-legal-… 3/3
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91,000 exile #Tibetans voted in 27 countries at the w/e, including the @UkTibetan , Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia's megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America: france24.com/en/asia-pacific…
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Studying a painting of cranes, the #DalaiLama quietly recites a verse penned by the Sixth Dalai Lama: 'White crane! Lend me your wings—I shall not fly far; From Lithang, I shall return'; a poem that foretold the birthplace of the Seventh Dalai Lama.
Apr 22
昨天（4月21日），尊者达赖喇嘛在达兰萨拉接见数百名信众与访客时，一位野生动物摄影师向尊者敬献了一幅他在藏北羌塘拍摄的仙鹤照片。尊者很高兴，当即背诵了六世达赖喇嘛仓央嘉措著名的预言诗歌：“洁白仙鹤，请借双翅，飞不多远，理塘即归。”
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Relevant in the context of #China's new 'Ethnic Unity' law which deploys vague offence categories capable of expansive interpretation, long-arm extraterritorial jurisdiction the criminalisation of speech and advocacy abroad that would be entirely lawful elsewhere
Apr 22
In a disturbing new instance of #China's transnational repression, a Chinese international student has been sentenced to 6 years in prison. His crime? Attending pro-democracy protests and solidarity rallies for #Tibetans #Uyghurs in Australia 1/4
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