Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek

[Est.: 9 Jan 1995. Last updated: 27 May 2007. This page is optimised for transmission speed, not for fancy looks.]

The purpose of this document is to provide central access point to online resources dealing with Tibetan politics.

The document is a part of the Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library. Please mail tmciolek@ciolek.com if you know of relevant networked resource not in this page.

Tibetan Human Rights Issues

• Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD)
  Narthang Building, Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala H.P., India
  Ph: +91 1892 22457/22510 Fax: +91 1892 24957
  E-mail: diir@dsala.tibet.net
  [The Center publishes TCHRD-L@tibet.net, a mailing list for regular Human Rights Updates.
  The list may be joined by sending the message
  listserv@tibet.net
  subscribe TCHRD-L
  The Center writes:"Please send any comments and thoughts on the human rights situation in Tibet, and feedback on TCHRD's work, to the tchrd-l address.]

• Human Rights Watch: Asia (www.hrw.org, US)
  ["Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. [...] * Regional Pages: Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia * Country Pages: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burma, Cambodia, China and Tibet, Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam."]
• Human Rights Sites' Search Engine
  [U.N. General Assembly Documents; U.N. Security Council Resolutions; U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; U.N. Commission on Human Rights; U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; Treaty Body Database; U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; International Labour Organization; Bibliography of UNESCO Documents, Publications and Library Collections; U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees; European Court of Human Rights; Council of Europe - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; International Committee of the Red Cross; Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada; US State Department.]
• Human Rights Web (shell3.ba.best.com,USA)
  [Human Rights (HR) Emergencies; What are HR? (An Introduction to HR; A Short History of the HR Movement; Biographies of Prisoners of Conscience); HR Legal and Political Documents (United Nations Documents; Other Documents; Human Rights Issues, Debates, and Discussions); What can I do to Promote HR? (A Primer for New HR Activists; Join a HR Organization!); HR Resources; HR Web Administrative Page]
• Human Rights and Universal Responsibility (Pennsylvania State U,USA)
  [15 June, 1993 Vienna, Austria, UN Conference on Human Rights statement by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet]
• Human Rights Page (Trondheim,Norway)
  
• China Human Rights Sheet (www.christusrex.org,USA)
  [This fact sheet (March 95) was prepared by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights: 1.Controls on Expressions and Associations, 2.Torture and Ill-Treatment of Prisoners, 3.Lack of Judicial Independance and Due Process, 4.Death Penalty, 5.Tibet, 6.Women, 7.Resource List]
• Chinese Prison Camps in Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet) (The Laogai Research Foundation, Washington, DC, USA )
  [The only indepedent source of information on China's vast labor camp system - the Laogai. The Handbook documents over 1,200 camps, past and present, arranged by province. In this internet version, the provinces are arranged in alphabetical order. Each listing contains the name of the camp, its enterprise name, location, population, and other information, such as products and history, if known. The LRF is a non-profit organization, est. in 1992 by Hongda Harry Wu, dedicated to collecting information about China's Gulag archipelago - ed.]
• International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (ICLT) (ICLT, USA)
  [Through legal action and education, ICLT promotes human rights, environmental protection, and peaceful resolution of the situation in Tibet. A non-profit membership group, ICLT is supported by attorneys, other concerned individuals, and organizations.]
• Olympic Watch: Human Rights in China and Beijing 2008 (www.olympicwatch.org, US)
  ["Welcome to Olympic Watch (Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in a Free and Democratic Country). Our mission is to monitor the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China and to campaign for its improvement before Beijing is to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. The key points of our concern are freedom of speech and access to information; persecution of opposition vs. development of democracy; death penalty and torture; campaign for a free Tibet; and relations between Chinese mainland (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC)."]
• Survival under Surveillance -
  a brief overview of the human rights situation in Tibet 1994-1995 - Feb 96 [42 Kb] (ANU,Australia)
  [Prepared by Human Rights Desk of the Dept of Information & International Relations, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Dharamsala, India (tibet@acs.ucalgary.ca)]
• Tibetan Cultural and Community Service Center (TCCSC) (members.aol.com,USA)
  [Information about TCCSC, inf. about Tibet, inf. about human rights]
• Inside Tibet - a country tortured (www.phillynews.com.USA)
  [An Inquirer Series of the 'Philadelphia Online' journal. First hand accounts and photographs of jail and torture of thousands of Tibetans in China's campaign to erase Tibet's culture and its independence movement.]
• Tibetan Misssion Report (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands)
  [Contents: PART 1: COLONIALISM IN FACT AND IN LAW. Chapter I, Types of Colonies; Chapter II, Doctrines on Colonialism; Chapter III, Colonialism on the International Agenda; Chapter IV, Non-aligned Perceptions: from Delhi to Cartagena; Chapter V, Common Features of Colonialism; PART 2: TIBET, A COLONY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA? Chapter VI, Chinese rule in Tibet: establishment, administration and maintenance; PART 3: CONCLUSIONS. Endnotes
  A copy of the report is available for $US 6.00 at UNPO, Javastraat 40A, 2585 AP The Hague, The Netherlands; phone +31 70 3603318; fax +31 70 3603346]
• See also Tibetan Politics (www.ciolek.com, Australia)

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