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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the photographers community are mobilizing for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, who is facing the possibility of death by hanging.

More than 20,000 Tibetans are currently living in Nepal as refugees, among them members of the Tibetan government-in-exile. China’s growing influence on Nepalese politics could make life for them increasingly difficult.

On 28 March 2018, the Tibet Bureau submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR) in the framework of the 31st Universal Periodic Review of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) - a report to which the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), jointly with other Tibetan activist groups and other parties, contributed.

 “Achievements are predominant, mistakes are secondary”:
the Panchen Lama’s meetings with Li Weihan and Zhou Enlai about his 70,000 character report on conditions in Tibet

As the dust settles on the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress, all indicators point to China, under Xi Jinping, setting out to develop into a more prosperous but authoritarian state at home and a more assertive presence on the global stage.

New Delhi —  Showing concern for others and conducting ourselves in an honest and truthful way, is cultivating warm-heartedness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said during his talk at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India on April 9, 2016.