China

On the evening of July 2, a man carrying a Tibetan flag stopped outside the United Nations headquarters in New York. Moments later, he was engulfed in flames in what authorities and Tibetan activists described as an apparent protest against Chinese rule over Tibet. The 52-year-old, identified by Tibet's...

China Ethnic Unity Law has come under increasing international scrutiny as the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) intensifies its global advocacy campaign, arguing that the legislation institutionalises forced assimilation, undermines minority rights, and expands Beijing’s ability to target critics beyond its borders. During a three-day advocacy visit to Stockholm from June...

For over seven decades, the spectre of authoritarianism has loomed large over the Tibetan plateau. Since the People's Republic of China (PRC) solidified its control in 1951, Tibet has been subject to a systematic and ever-tightening grip that has sought to remould its unique cultural, religious and social fabric...

Seventeen years after Chinese security forces violently suppressed Uyghur demonstrators in Ürümchi, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls on the Chinese government to account for those killed, disappeared, and imprisoned in the aftermath of the July 5, 2009 unrest. Despite appeals from victims’ families, Chinese authorities have never provided a transparent accounting...

July 1, was no ordinary day for 16-year-old Tenzin Desang. A new law that claims to promote ethnic unity was coming into force in China, and the young Tibetan teenager could not help but wonder how, for her fellow Tibetans inside Tibet, their very way of life would become...

Exiled Tibetans in Dharamshala joined a worldwide ‘Global Day of Action’ on Wednesday to denounce the implementation of China’s new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” describing it as a state-backed legal framework designed to accelerate the assimilation of Tibetans and systematically dismantle their distinct identity, language, religion,...

The promise of a “high degree of autonomy” for Hong Kong, enshrined in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, has been effectively extinguished. For decades, the “One Country, Two Systems” model allowed Hong Kong to flourish as a unique global city with its...

 A group of 151 Tibet groups have on Jun 27 appealed to the foreign ministers of 14 countries and the European Union to oppose China’s “Law on Ethnic Unity and Progress” while lawmakers from the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have called for a Europe-wide condemnation...

A coalition of 151 Tibetan organisations and Tibet support groups from across the world has appealed to the foreign ministers of 14 democratic nations and the European Union to oppose China’s controversial Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, which comes into force on July 1. In an open letter...

Dolkun Isa, President of the Uyghur Centre for Democracy, has called on the international community to take stronger action against China over its treatment of Uyghurs, warning that Beijing is using legislation and diplomatic influence to suppress ethnic identity and evade accountability. Speaking on the sidelines of the 62nd session...