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Protect Tibetan Language Rights: Preserve a Living Heritage
Language is more than a means of communication—it carries history, culture, identity, and knowledge. Tibetan is one of the world's oldest living literary languages and remains central to the cultural and spiritual life of millions of Tibetans. We call upon governments, educational institutions, international organizations, and policymakers to support and protect the right of Tibetan communities to learn, use, and preserve their language in education, public life, and cultural expression.
Target: dawa
TCHRD
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Target: Testers TAI India (Tibet Action Institute)
Volker Türk Break the Silence
You recently warned that China's new Ethnic Unity Law risks accelerating the assimilation of Tibetans and other peoples and eroding their distinct identities. We now call on you to break your silence on the most dangerous manifestation of this crisis in Tibet: the approximately one million Tibetan children separated from their families and forced into China's state-run residential boarding schools where they face indoctrination, cultural and linguistic erasure, and serious risk of abuse and neglect. Despite years of direct appeals, extensive documentation, and unprecedented alarm from UN human rights experts, you have never once publicly named China's residential boarding school system in Tibet. On July 2, 2026, Lobga Rangzen self-immolated on the doorstep of the United Nations in New York and subsequently died. His tragic death was a public act of protest not only against China's escalating campaign to eliminate Tibet's distinct national, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity, but against the failure of the United Nations to meaningfully confront a crisis unfolding in plain sight. Your mandate is to protect human rights globally, without fear or favour. Yet you have not spoken out as almost 80% of Tibetan students are forced to live in state-run residential boarding schools intended to erase their language and identity, and where they face the risk of abuse, neglect, and deep psychological harm. We demand that you: Publicly call on China to immediately abolish the colonial residential boarding school system in Tibet and guarantee Tibetan children high-quality, mother tongue-based education while living with their families. Establish an independent UN investigation into China's intensifying campaign of forced assimilation, cultural destruction, and grave human rights violations in Tibet, including the boarding school system. High Commissioner Türk, you have seen the evidence. Your own experts have sounded the alarm. Hundreds of thousands have appealed to you. History will judge whether you defended one million Tibetan children and the survival of an ancient culture—or bowed to power as China used the worst tools of colonialism to erase their identity.
Target: Volker Türk
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Target: Testers TAI India (Tibet Action Institute)
1 Signed
Goal: 100
Volker Türk Break the Silence
You recently warned that China's new Ethnic Unity Law risks accelerating the assimilation of Tibetans and other peoples and eroding their distinct identities. We now call on you to break your silence on the most dangerous manifestation of this crisis in Tibet: the approximately one million Tibetan children separated from their families and forced into China's state-run residential boarding schools where they face indoctrination, cultural and linguistic erasure, and serious risk of abuse and neglect. Despite years of direct appeals, extensive documentation, and unprecedented alarm from UN human rights experts, you have never once publicly named China's residential boarding school system in Tibet. On July 2, 2026, Lobga Rangzen self-immolated on the doorstep of the United Nations in New York and subsequently died. His tragic death was a public act of protest not only against China's escalating campaign to eliminate Tibet's distinct national, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity, but against the failure of the United Nations to meaningfully confront a crisis unfolding in plain sight. Your mandate is to protect human rights globally, without fear or favour. Yet you have not spoken out as almost 80% of Tibetan students are forced to live in state-run residential boarding schools intended to erase their language and identity, and where they face the risk of abuse, neglect, and deep psychological harm. We demand that you: Publicly call on China to immediately abolish the colonial residential boarding school system in Tibet and guarantee Tibetan children high-quality, mother tongue-based education while living with their families. Establish an independent UN investigation into China's intensifying campaign of forced assimilation, cultural destruction, and grave human rights violations in Tibet, including the boarding school system. High Commissioner Türk, you have seen the evidence. Your own experts have sounded the alarm. Hundreds of thousands have appealed to you. History will judge whether you defended one million Tibetan children and the survival of an ancient culture—or bowed to power as China used the worst tools of colonialism to erase their identity.
Target: Volker Türk
0 Signed
Goal: 100
Volker Türk Break the Silence
You recently warned that China's new Ethnic Unity Law risks accelerating the assimilation of Tibetans and other peoples and eroding their distinct identities. We now call on you to break your silence on the most dangerous manifestation of this crisis in Tibet: the approximately one million Tibetan children separated from their families and forced into China's state-run residential boarding schools where they face indoctrination, cultural and linguistic erasure, and serious risk of abuse and neglect. Despite years of direct appeals, extensive documentation, and unprecedented alarm from UN human rights experts, you have never once publicly named China's residential boarding school system in Tibet. On July 2, 2026, Lobga Rangzen self-immolated on the doorstep of the United Nations in New York and subsequently died. His tragic death was a public act of protest not only against China's escalating campaign to eliminate Tibet's distinct national, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity, but against the failure of the United Nations to meaningfully confront a crisis unfolding in plain sight. Your mandate is to protect human rights globally, without fear or favour. Yet you have not spoken out as almost 80% of Tibetan students are forced to live in state-run residential boarding schools intended to erase their language and identity, and where they face the risk of abuse, neglect, and deep psychological harm. We demand that you: Publicly call on China to immediately abolish the colonial residential boarding school system in Tibet and guarantee Tibetan children high-quality, mother tongue-based education while living with their families. Establish an independent UN investigation into China's intensifying campaign of forced assimilation, cultural destruction, and grave human rights violations in Tibet, including the boarding school system. High Commissioner Türk, you have seen the evidence. Your own experts have sounded the alarm. Hundreds of thousands have appealed to you. History will judge whether you defended one million Tibetan children and the survival of an ancient culture—or bowed to power as China used the worst tools of colonialism to erase their identity.
Target: Volker Türk
0 Signed
Goal: 100
Protect Tibetan Language Rights: Preserve a Living Heritage
Language is more than a means of communication—it carries history, culture, identity, and knowledge. Tibetan is one of the world's oldest living literary languages and remains central to the cultural and spiritual life of millions of Tibetans. We call upon governments, educational institutions, international organizations, and policymakers to support and protect the right of Tibetan communities to learn, use, and preserve their language in education, public life, and cultural expression.
Target: dawa
7 Signed
Goal: 11
Save Tibet's Rivers: Protect Asia's Water Tower
Tibet's rivers are among the most important freshwater sources on Earth. Flowing from the Tibetan Plateau, they provide water to nearly two billion people across Asia. These rivers support biodiversity, agriculture, livelihoods, and cultural heritage. We call upon governments, international organizations, environmental institutions, and all stakeholders to prioritize the protection of Tibet's rivers by ensuring sustainable management, environmental transparency, and respect for the ecological importance of the Tibetan Plateau.
Target: Department of Forestry
0 Signed
Goal: 1000