2021

December 26, 2021: Immediately on being informed that his “respected elder spiritual brother and good friend” Archbishop Desmond Tutu had passed away, His Holiness the Dalai Lama composed a letter to the Archbishop’s daughter, Rev. Mpho Tutu.

Washington DC: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, 20 December 2021, has designated Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Uzra Zeya to serve concurrently as the U.S Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues.

Geneva: The second and the final day of Geneva Forum 2021 concludes today with the participants and speakers jointly issuing a public statement to release the basic human rights of the Tibetans and those oppressed by the authoritarian Chinese government.

Geneva, 2nd November 2021: The ongoing fourth Geneva Forum held a special panel discussion on the Panchen Lama titled ‘Tibet’s Stolen Child – XIth Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’ on the first day of the conference on 1 November.

Geneva: 31.10.2021: In the afternoon of 31st October, Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, after successfully concluding official visits in Italy. Sikyong was accompanied by the Secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations, Karma Choeying and Representative Chhimey Rigzin of Tibet Bureau,Geneva.

Enes Kanter: Boston Celtics basketball player / NBA star has doubled down on his damning criticism of China’s government in a series of strongly-worded posts on social media.

Geneva, 24th September 2021: Tibetans in Switzerland & Liechtenstein held a peace march on 24th September 2021 from the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to the office of UN Human Rights Council paralleling the ongoing 48th UN Human Rights Council session.

Rikon: Saturday, 4^th September 2021: The Tibetan Community in Switzerland& Liechtenstein (TCSL) organized a commemoration ceremony on Saturday, 4^th September 2021 at Rikon Schulhaus, Switzerland, on the occasion of 61^st anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day.

The European parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on diplomatic officials to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in response to continuing human rights abuses by the Chinese government.

Zürich, 01^st July, 2021: Tibetan Community of Switzerland &Liechtenstein organized a solidarity March and Peace Demonstration on Thursday, 1^st July 2021 in Zürich against 100^th years anniversary of Chinese Communist Party( CCP)

Dharamshala: 27^th May 2021: In what His Holiness the Dalai Lama viewed as yet another “proud day” for Tibetan democracy, Mr Penpa Tsering was sworn in as the Sikyong of the 16th Kashag here this morning at the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission, Gangchen Kyishong.

Till a few months back, China’s rise was taken as a given. It still is in many ways. China is a rising economic and political power and it’s pointless to talk about preventing that from happening. But how China rises can certainly be managed so that it causes least disruption in the global order.

Ms. Pelosi was speaking on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on Wednesday.
China for decades has waged a campaign to destroy Tibet's proud culture and history, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has alleged, asserting that the US will continue to stand with the Tibetan people and honour those who sacrificed all for their rights and freedom.

The Swiss asylum law was revised two years ago with much shorter processes. Under the old law, the asylum applications of more than 300 Tibetan asylum seekers were rejected based on the controversial "Lingua-Analysis" and as they could not provide identity documents from their country-of-origin Tibet, which is occupied by the Communist People's Republic of China. Today, about 250 of these so-called Tibetan "Sans Papiers" are still living in Switzerland under humanly untenable conditions without any basic rights.