Photo: courtesy CTA/OoT, United Nations Geneva Office, Switzerland circa 2014. With profound sadness, members of ACT’s Tibetan Community and their friends and supporters gathered to pay their respects and offer prayers for the late Mr Ngodup Gyaltsen, a retired former civil servant of the Central Tibetan Administration, who passed in Canberra on 31 December, 2023. […]
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26 June: A World Without Torture
The UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June marks the moment in 1987 when the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, one of the key instruments in fighting torture, came into effect. Today, there are 173 State parties to the Convention, yet despite […]
Challenging the Status Quo: Advancing Trauma Recovery
Around the age of 15, a copy of the late Dr Herbert Benson MD’s book, The Relaxation Response, found its way onto my bookshelf. The pioneering work of Dr Benson and his colleagues committed to exploring mind-body approaches to counter the stress response with Tibetan refugees, paved the way to build an evidence base in […]
Stuart Rees’ “Cruelty or Humanity” priority issue for post Covid societies
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: This dramatic new book identifies the world wide, massive crises facing humanity. The planet is burning, civil wars continue, authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism are on the rise, refugees’ rights are trashed, yet in democracies, dictatorships and theocracies, leaders are promoting violence and cruelty as a policy priority. The humanitarian lifebuoy for people, animals and […]
A Cause for Celebration
China extended the long arm of its security apparatus across borders in order to securitize the Dalai Lama’s birth anniversary this year, which is traditionally celebrated by Tibetans worldwide on 6 July. Abandoning the element of fear that is a hallmark of failed authoritarian projects—Tibetans defiantly celebrated the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday inside restive Tibet, […]
For Phurbu Namgyal
Tibetan arrested for sighting His Holiness’ vision in moon DHARAMSHALA: The Chinese government has forbidden Tibetans living in Tibet from keeping their most revered spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s photos in homes, monasteries, to name a few. An act of defiance from Tibetans definitely leave them in facing the inevitable consequences. But now, […]
Enjoy Compassion: Always Tibet!
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