March 7, 2023: Experts from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) released a long list of concerns on the cultural, linguistic and religious rights of Uyghurs and Tibetans; and ongoing threats against human rights defenders and independent civil society protecting and promoting rights in mainland China and in Hong Kong. The …
January 13, 2023: Four UN Special Rapporteurs expressed “serious concern” over China’s “policy of acculturation and assimilation of the Tibetan culture” in a letter to Chinese Foreign Minister Wangy Yi dated November 11, 2022. The letter signed by Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural …
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Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Chair of the US Congressional Executive Commission on China, along with Senators Todd Young (R-IN), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduce bipartisan legislation on December 20 aimed at promoting a resolution to the ongoing Tibet-China conflict. The legislation reaffirms Tibetans’ right to self-determination as a people and clarifies that current …
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chair and Cochair of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), issued the Commission’s 2022 Annual Report on human rights conditions and rule of law developments in China on November 14, 2022. “Xi’s attempt to replace universal rights with a ‘‘Chinese …
Washington, July 13, 2022: U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee and Cochair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced The Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Conflict Act. For More: https://mcgovern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398897