WEEKLY TIBET NEWS DIGEST (12TH TO 18TH OCTOBER 2020)
Weekly Tibet News Digest is a collection of different articles, columns and Tibet related news in and outside Tibet published in various websites. The views expressed are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi.
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
- Working Together for a Peaceful World dalailama.com, 17/10/2020
- Congratulating Jacinda Ardern on her Election Victory dalailama.com, 15/10/2020
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama advises Mongolian followers to study Buddhism as science tibet.net, 15/10/2020
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama wishes Himachal CM a speedy recoverytibet.net, 15/10/2020
TIBET TODAY
- Analysis: Tibetans denied effective government leadership roles tibet.net, 16/10/2020
- Position without Power – Tibetan Representation in the Chinese Administrative System savetibet.org, 15/10/2020
- Dialogue Between the Dalai Lama and China a ‘Major Challenge’: Interview RFA, 16/10/2020
- ‘Black day’: China, Pakistan’s election to UN rights body draws ire The Times of India, 14/10/2020
- Tibetan Writer and Former Political Prisoner in Failing Health in Qinghai Hospital RFA, 12/10/2020
TIBETANS IN EXILE
- “We lost a true patriot of Tibet”: CTA mourns demise of Takna Jigme Sangpo, Tibet’s longest-serving political prisoner tibet.net, 17/10/2020
- Speaker congratulates newly appointed US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues tibet.net, 16/10/2020
- History Made: Sikyong Invited formally to the US State Department tibet.net, 16/10/2020
- 29th COVID-19 briefing: Both SORIG and allopathic treatment recommended for speedy recovery tibet.net, 15/10/2020
- CTA President wishes Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur swift recovery from COVID-19 tibet.net, 15/10/2020
WORLDWIDE TIBETAN MOVEMENT
- US Government Appoints New Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues tibet.net, 14/10/2020
- China elected to the UN Human Rights Council with reduced support tibet.net, 14/10/2020
- Tibet Interest Group (TIG) vows to raise China’s forced labour camp issue in the European Parliament tibet.net, 12/10/2020
FEATURE & ARTICLES
- Beijing’s motives for crushing Tibetan language asiatimes.com, 16/10/2020
- Tibetan female religious practitioners under China’s sinicization campaign in Tibet by Tashi Choedon, Tibet Policy Institute
- The United Nations and Human Rights: No More “Universal” or “Rights” tibetpolicy.net, 14/10/2020
- How China Is Suppressing Tibetan Buddhist Nuns, ‘Erasing’ Identity by Tashi Choedon, The Quint
- Sikyong at Václav Havel Human Rights Symposium on China: ‘Either we transform China or China transform us’ tibet.net, 13/10/2020