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In this edition: New ICT Report: Shadow of dust across the sun: How tourism is used to counter Tibetan cultural resilience; First cases of Tibetan self-immolations in 2017; China and Tibet at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council; US-China Presidential Summit; 2017 International Tibet Lobby Days; Tibet Friendship Parliamentary Group Formed in Sweden (…)

EU Statement at the 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights CouncilItem 4 – Human Rights situation that require the Council’s attention14 March 2017 (…) In China, while acknowledging the progress made on a number of areas of human development, including the elimination of poverty, the EU continues to be concerned about the arrest, […]

A new report by ICT, ‘Shadow of Dust across the Sun’, reveals how the demolitions and expulsions at Larung Gar and Yachen Gar in the past six months are part of an unfolding political strategy involving more aggressive measures in order to curb and manage the growing influence and number of monks and nuns at these important monastic centers of study and Buddhist ethics in eastern Tibet, the largest such institutes in the world.

On 28 February 2017, Freedom House published a new report “The battle for China’s spirit”, which examines the evolution of the Communist Party’s policies of religious control and citizens’ responses to them since November 2012, in the first comprehensive analysis of its kind.

On 8 February 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in collaboration with the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) held a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, kindly hosted by MEPs Ilhan Kyuchyuk (ALDE) and Thomas Mann (EPP).

In this edition: European Parliament adopts resolution on Larung Gar and Ilham Tohti; Tibetan pilgrims compelled to return from Dalai Lama’s teaching in India; New ICT-FIDH Report: Dangers of China’s counter-terrorism law for Tibetans and Uyghurs; The Dalai Lama visits Mongolia; Tibetans sentenced to long prison terms for involvement in Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday celebration; New self-immolation protest in Tibet in December 2016 (…)

The International Campaign for Tibet, in collaboration with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk (ALDE) and MEP Thomas Mann (EPP), will be convening a conference at the European Parliament entitled ‘Chinese counter-terrorism policy: Impacts and dangers for Tibetans and Uyghurs’ on 8 February 2017.

Tour operators have announced the closure of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to tourists again next month, coinciding with the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in March 1959 and the related protests across Tibet in March 2008.

An article written by Tai Ming Cheung and published by China Policy Institute.

The European Parliament adopted on 15 December 2016 an urgency resolution on breaches of human rights, democracy, and rule of law in China, in which it urged the Chinese authorities to stop the dismantling at Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist academy.