2024-04-08 09:09
Chinese authorities have detained incommunicado a Tibetan monk from the local Kirti Monastery for staging a peaceful solo protest against repressive policies in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan Auton… Read More
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A registered non-governmental human rights organisation established in January 1996 in Dharamsala (India) with the mission to protect the human rights of the Tibetan people in Tibet and promote the principles of democracy in the exile Tibetan community.
2024-03-25 04:56
Chinese authorities must release from unjust detention Tibetan singer Gegjom who is being held in an undisclosed location after his arbitrary detention a… Read More
2024-03-20 09:04
Even as China ended its draconian zero-Covid policy measures in 2023, Tibetans continue to face escalating crackdowns on freedom of expression, religion and belief. Despite numerous calls fr… Read More
2024-03-13 05:32
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), in collaboration with the Asian Dignity Initiative (ADI), has concluded its signature petition campaign to safeguard Tibetan refuge… Read More
2024-03-04 10:40
The Chinese authorities are forcibly constructing hydropower dams in the upper reaches of the Drichu (Ch: Jinsha) river, leading to the involuntary relocation and displacement of local Tibet… Read More
2024-02-28 09:27
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) recently concluded a comprehensive series of workshops on “Bystander Intervention against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.&rd&hell…Read More
2024-02-06 14:28
Much has been reported about the experiences of communities targeted by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) transnational repression campaign, but little is known about the Tibetan exp… Read More
2024-01-02 09:46
Tibetan human rights defender Tsering Tso had been subjected to arbitrary detention for the second time in three years for her social media posts ca… Read More
2023-12-21 04:52
Naktsang Nulo’s New Book Captures His Brave And Unflinching Voice On Life Under Chinese Occupation
2023-12-11 06:07
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during special release of the book
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply h… Read More
2023-12-10 07:44
TCHRD’s executive director Ms Tenzin Dawa highlighting the escalating human rights violations in Nepal against Tibetans
In recent years, the growing Chinese influence in Nepal has… Read More
2023-12-04 06:06
A Tibetan singer named Palden has been sentenced on an unknown date a few months after his detention earlier this year in Golog (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai… Read More
2023-10-24 06:45
Centre’s researcher Nyiwoe and legal associate Phurbu Dolma during the release of the Tibetan guidebook on “Engaging with the UN Special Procedures”
24 October 2023 &nda&helli…Read More
2023-10-13 04:57
Last Tuesday, China retained its membership in the Human Rights Council, the UN’s premier rights body responsible for protecting and promoting human rights globally. China received 154… Read More
2023-10-11 10:00
On 11 October, seven advocacy groups representing Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, Han Chinese, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and Tibetans spoke against China’s transn… Read More
2023-10-02 04:43
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), represented by the executive director, Ms Tenzin Dawa, and researcher, Mr Ngawang Lungtok, actively participated in the working ses… Read More
2023-08-31 08:52
TCHRD’s Tibetan researcher, Mr. Nyiwoe, moderated the panel discussion featuring three former political prisoners and a Tibetan human rights… Read More
2023-08-24 04:57
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the continued persecution of the well-known Tibetan language rights advocate Tashi Wangchuk, who had been released… Read More
2023-08-10 05:43
Writer Dhi Lhaden’s release following four years of confinement raises concerns over the uncertainty surrounding his physical and psychological well-being, compounded by the limited ac… Read More
2023-08-01 09:35
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) submitted a UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report ahead of the fourth periodic review of the People’s Republic of China in… Read More
2023-07-23 14:01
Chinese authorities are systematically removing from its publicly accessible databases records of court verdicts involving Tibetans convicted of engaging in the vaguely worded and broadly de… Read More
2023-07-17 05:56
Almost five years after his arbitrary detention and unjust imprisonment on politically motivated charges, prominent Tibetan activist A-nya Sengdra is being subjected to further injustices… Read More
2023-06-26 07:51
Every year on 26 June, the United Nations observes the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture to highlight torture’s profoundly damaging and distressing consequences and it… Read More
2023-05-17 05:22
Today, we observe the 28th anniversary of the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention and subsequent enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama Jetsun Tenzin Gedhun Yeshi Trinley… Read More
2023-05-12 06:15
On 3 May, Gonpo Kyi shared a video decrying the unjust verdict against her brother Dorje Tashi. Kyi says in the vid… Read More
2023-05-04 13:03
A Tibetan teacher detained on 10 April for expressing joy at seeing the recent video of His Holiness the Dalai Lama… Read More
2023-05-01 03:47
Early this year, Chinese authorities quietly began enforcing an assimilationist education system in Tibetan primary schools in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Si… Read More
2023-03-28 06:59
Dharamsala, India – The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reported in its newly released annual report that the human rights situation in Tibet in 2022 has been one… Read More
2023-02-07 06:52
Photo of the ‘Losar’ New Year celebration show in Muge, Tibetan province of Amdo
Chinese authorities detained and fined a Tibetan university student for organising a ‘Lo… Read More
2023-01-12 11:33
During the opening of Sengdruk Taktse new middle school, dated 5 August 2005.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) welcomes the letter sent to China by four UN human… Read More
2023-01-06 04:42
Family members of Dorje Tashi, a renowned Tibetan entrepreneur serving life imprisonment, have been calling for his immediate release by staging sustained public protests against Chinese aut… Read More
2022-12-19 06:53
The well-known Tibetan businessman and philanthropist Nangchen Tashi and his family members have become the latest victims of China’s brutal zero-Covid policy even after Chinese author… Read More
2022-12-10 03:31
On this Human Rights Day, we call on the Chinese government to immediately put an end to its inhumane and brutal ‘zero-Covid’ policy, release all persons detained for criticizing… Read More
2022-12-06 03:10
The news about Goyon’s release comes close on the heels of another major development: sentencing of six former Tibetan political prisoners, writers and public intellectuals on the trum… Read More
2022-11-29 10:46
As reports emerged of massive protests staged by Chinese public against the government’s zero-Covid policy, sources in Tibet informed TCHRD about the discriminatory treatment and arbit… Read More
2022-11-10 12:07
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the recent detention of four known Tibetans, among them an elderly woman, for merely engaging in the Tibetan Buddh… Read More
2022-10-24 10:31
To mark United Nations Day, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy launched a Tibetan guidebook on UN Human Rights Mechanisms to facilitate easy access for Tibetans in general, an… Read More
2022-10-14 19:31
Chinese authorities detained five Tibetan men on the evening of 13 October in Golog (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo.
They were… Read More
2022-10-05 12:10
5 October 2022 General Secretary Xi JinpingCentral Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaZhongnanhai Ximen, Fuyou StreetXicheng District, Beijing 100017People’s Republic of ChinaFax… Read More
2022-09-29 15:11
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) represented by the executive director Ms Tsering Tsomo and senior program officer Ms Tenzin Dawa attended working sessions of the 51… Read More
2022-09-27 11:13
Forty nine days have passed since Chinese authorities imposed an authoritarian lockdown to ostensibly prevent and control Covid-19 in Lhasa and other major cities in Tibet Autonomous Region… Read More
2022-09-27 11:13
Forty nine days have passed since Chinese authorities imposed an authoritarian lockdown to ostensibly prevent and control Covid-19 in Lhasa and other major cities in Tibet Autonomous Region… Read More
2022-09-25 07:20
As reported earlier by TCHRD, Chinese authorities have called for “striking hard” on those “spreading rumours about the pandemic” to further censor free speech to enf… Read More
2022-09-18 06:56
On 8 August, Chinese authorities publicly admitted for the first time that there were 22 Covid positive cases in Lhasa and Ngari cities, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in the Tibetan province… Read More
2022-09-02 03:21
On the 62nd anniversary of the Tibetan Democracy Day, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) extends greetings to Tibetans all over the world both inside and outside of Ti… Read More
2022-08-28 04:42
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the sentencing of two monks, Tenzin Dhargay and Rigtse, to prison for merely exercising the right to freedom of ex… Read More
2022-08-10 11:04
A Tibetan monk named Tseta, 25, was detained for about seven months shortly after Tenzin Sherab, a 33-yr old Tibetan nomad, died of self-immolation protest in May 2013 in Chumarleb (Ch: Quma… Read More
2022-08-08 10:35
A group of Tibetan refugees pursuing higher education in different colleges and universities in India took part in a workshop to better understand and advocate for human rights in their dail… Read More
2022-08-02 06:29
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed about the sentencing of Mr Tenzin Tharpa to a fixed term imprisonment of two years and six months for helping loca… Read More
2022-07-25 08:30
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) strongly condemns the unjust sentencing of the Tibetan entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr Tenzin Choephel to 18 years in prison on t… Read More
2022-07-04 11:36
Photo taken on the 84th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 6 July 2020/ Photo: Jigme Gyatso
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is overcome with grief over t… Read More
2022-06-26 04:25
今天是“支持酷刑受害者国际日”，西藏人权与民主促… Read More
2022-06-26 04:19
དེ་རིང་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ས'… Read More
2022-06-26 03:56
Today on the “International Day in Support of Victims of Torture”, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy expresses our solidarity with all political prisoners around… Read More
2022-06-18 18:59
འདི་ག་བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐ… Read More
2022-06-18 18:55
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has received information from reliable sources that the well-known Tibetan writer Rongwo Gendun Lhundup, 48, has been sentenced to f… Read More
2022-06-18 17:48
根据西藏人权与民主促进中心今天早些时候收到的信ত……Read More
2022-06-18 17:44
བོད་ཁམས་ཕྱོགས་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁ་འབུམ་… Read More
2022-06-18 17:06
Tibetan intellectual and writer Thupten Lodoe (pseudonym: Sabuchey), 34, has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison, according to information received by TCHRD earlier today… Read More
2022-06-18 14:30
西藏人权与民主促进中心从可靠消息来源获悉，现年48… Read More
2022-06-17 15:42
今年5月，在西藏安多甘南藏族自治州当局对西藏寺院Ű……Read More
2022-06-17 15:42
去年 5 月，在西藏安多甘南藏族自治州当局对西藏寺… Read More
2022-06-17 12:39
Last May, an unidentified Tibetan monk was forced to take his own life amid widespread crackdown on Tibetan monastic institutions in Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu… Read More
2022-06-17 04:30
ཉེ་དུས་བོད་མདོ་སྨད་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱ… Read More
2022-06-01 06:56
In an open letter to President Xi Jinping on China’s ‘Children’s Day’ (六一际儿童节) on 1 June, the Tibetan Centre for Human Right… Read More
2022-06-01 04:30
在 6 月 1 日中国的“六一国际儿童节”当天给习近ॱ……Read More
2022-05-17 05:40
འདི་ནས་བརྩིས་པའི་མི་ལོ་ ༢༧ གྱ……Read More
2022-05-17 05:38
2022 年 5 月 17 日
西藏最受尊敬的精神领袖之一，第十一世班… Read More
2022-05-17 04:30
17 May 2022
One of the most highly revered Tibetan spiritual leaders, the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, remains missing since his abduction by the Chinese authorities at the age of… Read More
2022-05-11 04:30
བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་… Read More
2022-05-11 04:30
西藏人权与民主促进中心（TCHRD）和亚洲尊严倡议（ADI）ࢷ……Read More
2022-05-11 04:30
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) and Asian Dignity Initiative (ADI) released a joint report, “Sucked Our Marrow: Tibetan Language and Education Rights under Xi… Read More
2022-05-03 12:01
བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་… Read More
2022-05-03 07:30
On 3 May 2022, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy organised a panel discussion on the topic, ‘Role of Media in Advancing Tibetan Democracy’ to observe World… Read More
2022-05-03 04:30
2022 年 5 月 3 日，西藏人权与民主促进中心在达兰萨拉的罗… Read More
2022-04-26 09:30
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) released the 2021 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet at a press conference in Dharamshala a day after the 11th Pan… Read More
2022-04-26 09:30
西藏人权与民主促进中心在十一世班禅喇嘛 33 岁生日… Read More
2022-04-26 04:30
རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་བོད་ནང་གི་བ… Read More
2022-04-22 04:30
Chinese authorities in Sershul (Ch: Shiqu) County, Kardze (Ch: Ganzi ) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had ordered sometime early this year that all Tibetan private schools must be closed and… Read More
2022-04-22 04:30
甘孜藏族自治州石渠县的中国当局已于今年早些时候ߍ……Read More
2022-04-22 04:30
ཉེ་ལམ་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་བོད་ཁ… Read More
2022-04-13 05:30
西藏人权与民主中心对藏语倡导者扎西旺秀（也译扎……Read More
2022-04-13 04:30
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply concerned about the personal liberty and security of Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk, who was released early last… Read More
2022-04-13 04:30
འདི་ག་བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐ… Read More
2022-04-07 04:30
据西藏人权与民主促进中心获得的可靠消息，西藏康ࡒ……Read More
2022-04-04 10:30
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply grieved to learn about the death of Mr. Tashi Phuntsok, who set himself on fire to protest the repressive policies enforce… Read More
2022-04-04 04:30
西藏人权与民主促进中心获悉81岁的扎西彭措（也称扎… Read More
2022-04-03 05:30
བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་… Read More
2022-03-21 04:22
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has learned about the release of Tibetan writer, teacher and environmentalist Kunchok Tsephel on 18 March after serving more tha… Read More
2022-03-16 06:06
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is looking for an English Researcher at its office at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. The centre invites applicants with excell… Read More
2022-03-15 02:41
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has been informed by credible sources that Tsewang Norbu, 25, a famous Tibetan singer died of self-immolation on 25 February this ye… Read More
2022-02-23 11:11
Following the demolition of two giant Buddha statues, Chinese authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on both lay and monastic communities in an attempt to stop any information about… Read More
2022-01-23 15:37
Tibetan language rights advocate Tashi Wangchuk in a Weibo post on 18 January revealed that the day before, he was summoned and interrogated for almost three hours at the Kyegudo (Ch: Yushu)… Read More
2022-01-12 03:42
TCHRD has been informed that a 30-ft Maitreya Buddha statue in the courtyard of Drango Namgyal Ling Monastery has been destroyed and at least a dozen local Tibetans detained for sharing news… Read More
2021-12-30 12:40
TCHRD has been informed by a reliable source that Chinese authorities in Drango (Ch: Luhuo) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan pro… Read More
2021-12-27 16:02
The Chinese Party-state is targeting and silencing influential Tibetan writers, intellectuals and cultural leaders that it views as hindrance to its cultural assimilation campaign.
Among… Read More
2021-12-27 16:02
The Chinese Party-state is targeting and silencing influential Tibetan writers, intellectuals and cultural leaders that it views as hindrance to its cultural assimilation campaign.
Among… Read More
2021-12-13 15:04
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) confirmed that Gō Sherab Gyatso also known as Gosher was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Lhasa Intermediate People&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-12-10 03:25
Equality, the theme of 2021 Human Rights Day, is enshrined in the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which states, “All human beings are born free and eq… Read More
2021-12-02 16:14
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) unveiled this morning the much-awaited website to decode Chinese Communist Party (CCP) slogans and jargon at a press conference held… Read More
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