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BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government will move more than 52,000 Tibetan herders and farmers into permanent housing this year, state media said on Thursday, a practice rights groups say has been marked by abuses. “The project to improve their living conditions began in 2006, when the regional government set a target of building […]
At the 10th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2009, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders reported back to the UN HRC on cases transmitted to governments and the replies received. The PDF below highlights the Tibetan cases submitted to the Chinese government by the […]
The European Union welcomes the fact that the representatives of the Dalai Lama are at present visiting China for the third time, since resumption of the contacts in September 2002. The EU has been looking forward to a third visit and hopes that it will encourage the start of meaningful and direct dialogue between Beijing […]