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Clear, factual and well-sourced information about Tibet, its people, culture, language and the human rights issues they face today.
This section is created by Tibetan Events Worldwide to provide clear, factual and well-sourced information about Tibet, its people, culture, language and the human rights issues they face today.
Tibetans around the world are deeply concerned about policies that threaten their language, culture, religion, education and identity. Here you will find explanations, stories, reports and resources to help you understand.
Three explainers, read in this order, give you the whole picture. About 27 minutes.
On 1 July 2026, a new Chinese law came into force that many Tibetans believe will change the future of their language, their religion and their children.
The demands have stayed remarkably consistent: the right to speak and be taught in Tibetan, to practise Buddhism without state supervision, to remain on their land, and to decide their own future.
Who Lobga Rangzen was, what happened outside the UN in July 2026, and the full record of more than 170 Tibetan self-immolations since 2009.
A literary civilisation with its own script, medicine, philosophy, calendar and legal tradition, continuous for more than thirteen centuries.
Around one million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools, some from the age of four. UN human rights experts have called on China to end the system.
Religious freedom, freedom of expression, surveillance and access for independent observers: the documented picture in Tibet, and where it is incomplete.
Every source used across the Understand Tibet section: UN statements, human rights organisations, academic work and international reporting.
Tibetans around the world are deeply concerned about policies that threaten their language, culture, religion, education and identity. Here you will find explanations, stories, reports and resources to help you understand.
“Almost every Tibetan event listed on this site is, in some quiet sense, part of that continuity: a language class is a political act when the language is being erased.”
