Björk declares Tibet’s independence
Pop singer Björk performs a solo concert Sunday in Shanghai. The Icelandic singer has upset China after she declared “Tibet! Tibet!” to end a passionate performance of her song “Declare Independence” during a concert in China. The outburst, at the finale of Björk’s Sunday night concert in Shanghai, made audience members uneasy because it publicly touched on Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule, and set off complaints online. She kept chanting “Tibet! Tibet!” throughout the closing of the song. (AP photo)
Human Rights Forum in Taiwan urges International boycott of 2008 Beijing Games
Over 100 political figures and human rights activists from 12 countries, including Tibet took part in the forum to deliberate on how to motivate global powers to boycott the Beijing Olympics
Time for China to sign rights covenant
It has been 10 years since China sent a representative to the United States for the purpose of signing the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1998
Misery: China’s biggest export
Besides enabling genocide in Darfur, China is also well into its fiftieth year of a military occupation of Tibet. Many thousands of Tibetans—including Tibet’s spiritual leader
Morgan urged to take the moral high ground and speak out for Tibet
Campaigners and Conservative and Liberal Democrat Party leaders hope he will also raise concerns about human rights and China’s occupation of Tibet
Ready to depart, the “return march” of the Tibetan exiles
They want to cross – without permission – the border between India and China, in connection with the Olympics, to denounce before the world the repressive Chinese occupation
Tibet campaigners criticise BBC
Campaigners against China’s occupation of Tibet have criticised a new BBC4 documentary which they claim contains a “grievous misrepresentation” of the country’s spiritual