(TibetanReview.net, Nov09’19) – The United States government is asking the United Nations to take up the Dalai Lama reincarnation issue in an intensified bid to stop China from imposing a fake reincarnation of Tibet’s exiled religious leader in future. Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, has made […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul20’19) – Five UN independent experts have questioned China’s use of its anti-separatism law to suppress freedom of expression, religion, assembly and association and the cultural rights of the Tibetan people as they presented their reports during the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25, 2018) – Because of its rapid economic growth and the size of its economy, China will become the second-largest monetary sponsor of the United Nations, behind only the US, under newly adopted contribution plans, reported asia.nikkei.com Dec 24. This is expected to further raise China’s influence in the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12, 2018) – China has ‘welcomed’ the UN’s new human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, by telling her to respect its sovereignty after she urged it to allow monitors into the restive far western region of Xinjiang and expressed concern about the situation there. Last month, a United Nations rights […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep01, 2018) – Not impressed by China’s patently false and tall claims about its treatment of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongols while responding to questions on its report on the implementation of the United Nations convention on the elimination of racial discrimination, concerned experts in Geneva of the world body […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug18, 2018) – Rather than answering the questions, China has on Aug 13 questioned the questions, those who asked them and the authors of the reports on which some of those questions were based during the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)’s hearing in Geneva on […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug15, 2018) – China on Aug 13 welcomed the appointment of Ms Michelle Bachelet’s appointment as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights while employing its usual euphemistic terms to make it clear that she should work on its terms to earn its cooperation. China is ready to […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug13, 2018) – China’s discriminatory passport policy towards Tibetans was one of the many issues on which the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sought answer from China at its ongoing review of the country’s compliance with the relevant UN rights document, reproted the Central […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug12, 2018) – A United Nation Committee headed by the world body’s first independent expert on minority issues has on Aug 10 delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its treatment of Uyghurs, accusing it of turning the Xinjiang region into “a no-rights zone”, reported theglobeandmail.com Aug 10. Gay […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul06, 2018) – UN human rights experts have on Jul 4 called on China to release Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow her to seek treatment for deteriorating health, including travelling abroad. China has been holding her in detention without any legal […]