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WUC urges Trump to raise Uyghur genocide, human rights concerns during upcoming China visit

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has urged United States President Donald Trump to raise the issue of the Uyghur genocide and press China over alleged human rights abuses during his upcoming visit to China on May 15, which will...

EU hearing raises alarm over China’s ‘Ethnic Unity Law’, warns of forced assimilation of Tibetans and Uyghurs

The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN) held a joint public hearing to assess the impact of China's "Ethnic Unity Law" on Tibetans, Uyghurs, and other affected communities,...

Lhadon Tethong in The Guardian on Forcible Assimilation of Tibetan Children

‘They have built a machine that pulls out their mother tongue’: why Tibet’s children ‘think they are Chinese’Parents say the insistence on Mandarin in schools is eroding the Tibetan language and culture right from early childhood By Kris Cheng...

Europe, Canada press China over Uyghur repression as WUC intensifies global campaign

During a series of meetings in Belgium and Germany, WUC representatives engaged with European Union officials, Members of the European Parliament, and policymakers from EU member states, urging tougher and more coordinated action against China's policies targeting Uyghurs.

Beijing Faces Fresh EU Scrutiny as Lawmakers Convene A Hearing To Examine Impact of China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on Tibetans, Uyghurs and Other Targeted...

Brussels, 07 May: Merely a week following the European Parliament’s landmark resolution condemning China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” adopted with an overwhelming majority of 439 votes, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People’s...

European Parliament Discusses Impact of China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” on Tibetans and Uyghurs

Brussels, 07 May: Merely a week following the European Parliament’s landmark resolution condemning China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” adopted with an overwhelming majority of 439 votes, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People’s...

‘They have built a machine that pulls out their mother tongue’: why Tibet’s children think they are Chinese

Parents say the insistence on Mandarin in schools is eroding the country’s language and culture right from early childhoodWeeks after a Tibetan-speaking five-year-old started preschool, she had “completely stopped speaking Tibetan”, according to her mother. Nine months later, although...

Report criticizes China’s linguistic ‘harmonizing’ of Tibetan children

(TibetanReview.net, May06’26) – China is giving the word “harmony” a bad name, using it as as means to obliterate the civilizational identity of Tibet, starting by Sincizing the upbringing of the territory’s pre-school children, according to a 72-page report...

Disenfranchised Choejor Tibetans in Kathmandu suing exile Tibetan election body

(TibetanReview.net, May06’26) – After reversing on May 1 its Apr 23 decision to annul the Choejor (Choeten-Boudha and Jorpati) polling station for the final poll for the Tibetan Parliament in Exile election, the Election Commission of the Central Tibetan...

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming: report

Mumbai: Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute...