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As a small offering of our shared belief that together we can overcome any obstacle, the Tibet Action team has created a Losar e-card for the Year of the Fire Horse. We hope you’ll share it with your friends and loved ones.
Please view and share here: tibetaction.net/losar-2026/
For Tibetans everywhere, these are not abstract traits but lived realities—reflecting a people who carry their culture, identity, and resistance forward despite decades of China’s colonial occupation.
17.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Among the twelve animals of the zodiac, the horse is especially auspicious, symbolizing freedom, endurance, and forward momentum.
17.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Losar Message and E-card Offering from Tibet Action's Co-founder and Director, Lhadon Tethong @lhadon.bsky.social
*Courage and Fortitude in the Year of the Fire Horse*
The Fire Horse embodies courage and dynamic energy, capable of overcoming obstacles and sparking transformative change.
Listen to Dr. Tenzin Dorjee, Senior Researcher and Strategist at Tibet Action Institute, present at the Geneva Summit 2026: What Next? Advancing International Accountability and Multilateral Response.
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Notices banning children under 18 from entering a monastery have reportedly appeared in Kham, signaling stricter enforcement of policies restricting minors’ participation in religious activities.
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Why are young Chinese students risking everything to amplify Tibetan voices?
On Tibet Unlocked, Ginger Duan shares the story of Tara, arrested last summer in Gyalthang, Kham, and now facing serious political charges.
Tara’s story deserves to be heard.
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In recent days, false information has been circulating online, wrongly linking His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to the Epstein files. To address these claims, Tibet Radio spoke with Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Tibet Action's Director of Technology.
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"As a country confronting the devastating legacy of its own residential school system, Canada has a moral responsibility to oppose similar abuses wherever they occur.”
- Lhadon Tethong, Director of Tibet Action Institute and a Tibetan-Canadian.
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Dr. Gyal Lo’s courage - despite direct pressure on him & his family in Tibet - inspires us all.
Watch him & Lhadon Tethong reflect on this critical year for Tibet.
Thank you for standing with us. Year-end gifts keep this work alive: tibetaction.net/support/
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At the 18th UN Forum on Minority Issues, Dr. Tenzin Dorjee (UNPO Advisory Board) delivered powerful testimony on the vital contributions of minority communities and confronted China at the UN, warning of “colonial assimilation” in Tibet.
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At the 18th Session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues, UNPO Advisory Board member Dr. Tenzin Dorjee delivered a powerful intervention on the “superpower” of minority perspectives in shaping stronger, more resilient societies.
Read the full statement here: unpo.org/un-forum-pan...
Pro-Tibet activist Zhang Yadi (張雅笛) wanted to see her family, and traveled home to China this summer...she disappeared. Relatives told reporters that the 22-year-old was detained by Chinese authorities and has been in solitary confinement for more than 3 months. www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/a...
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In a deeply personal address at the United Nations’ 18th Forum on Minority Issues, Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, Dr Tenzin Dorjee delivered one of the most forceful interventions of the session -
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'Called my Indian passport invalid' Arunachal woman alleges harassment at Chinese airport
www.firstpost.com/world/called...
The indoctrination of Tibetan elementary students: how the Communist Party enforces “Red” re-education with Mao worship and military training.
savetibet.org/the-indoctri...
🔺IN DEPTH: How a hunt for ‘Himalayan viagra’ laid bare China’s iron grip on Tibet
A man detained for months after being found searching for a valuable fungus tells of his harrowing experience at the hands of Beijing’s ruthless security forces
We urge media to foreground Tibet, Tibetan and Tibetans when reporting on #Tibet.
This isn't "south-west China", it's Tibet.
The bridge's name "Hongqi" translates as Red Flag, political propaganda asserting CCP control over Tibet.
Our decolonial reporting guide: tibetaction.net/resource-gui...
From @theguardian.com 2021 archive:
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In October, the democratically elected leader of the Tibetan govt. in exile made his second official visit to Mexico, a powerful moment for Tibet advocacy in Latin America.
As China’s influence grows across Mexico, Sikyong’s visit brought Tibet’s story to the forefront.
tibet.net/sikyong-penp...
Beyond NPR’s fatalistic headline lies a story of Tibetan resilience. While numbers in India may decline, Tibetans worldwide are growing, our culture, language, and struggle remain alive. Exile is a challenge, but we’re still here, passing the torch to new generations.
www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
Beijing’s ‘international symposium’ defending colonial boarding schools in Tibet shows how threatened it is by the truth. Instead of granting independent access to Tibet, it stages academic theater to mask the harm being done to Tibetan children.
www.phayul.com/2025/10/30/5...
Tibet stands at the frontlines of climate change and colonial exploitation disguised as sustainability. True climate justice means Tibetans - experts on their own land - must have the power to decide what development looks like. Green energy without justice isn’t progress.
14.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Tibet, environmental policy is enforced through repression. There’s no space for dissent. Tibetan land defenders and activists like A-Nya Sengdra, Karma Samdrup and Tsongon Tsering have been jailed for exposing local corruption or protecting the environment.
14.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The NYT described Tibet as “sparsely inhabited” and “optimal” for solar power, erasing the people who live there. Tibet’s grasslands are ancestral grazing lands, not empty space. Since 2000, nearly 930,000 Tibetans have been forcibly relocated under the banner of “development.”
14.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0round the world, solar and wind infrastructure projects are driving what experts call a “green grab” - seizing land from rural and Indigenous communities for profit. China’s green projects in Tibet fit the same pattern: land loss, forced relocation, and crackdown on dissent.
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What the NYT missed about China’s green energy projects in Tibet: they’re being hailed as a triumph but what’s left out is the human and ecological cost, displacement, and repression.
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As she toured Eastern Tibet, Zhang Yadi saw signs only in Mandarin, shops run by Chinese owners & streets draped in Chinese communist flags. She felt Tibet’s identity was being erased. Speaking out about it would later lead to her arrest & disappearance.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“Tibetans, Uyghurs, and others who speak out for minority populations can expect even greater government repression,” said Maya Wang, associate Asia director at
@hrw.org
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When Xi Jinping visited Tibet, fireworks lit the sky, but many shared a quieter story of resilience. Hear Tenzin Dorjee on China Global Podcast on Tibet’s struggle to preserve its culture under Chinese control.
Full podcast: youtu.be/M647x3tazlQ?...
