2021-05-19 17:35:09 GMT2021-05-20 01:35:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) A seminar was held in Beijing on Wednesday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet.
The seminar was co-organized by the China Society for Human Rights Studies, the China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture (CAPDTC), and the China Tibetology Research Center.
Since the peaceful liberation of the region, it has seen all-round progress in terms of the social system, people s lives, cultural development, freedom of religious belief, and eco-environment conservation, said Sita, vice chairman of the CAPDTC.
U.S. writer Laurence Brahm said the culture of various ethnic groups has been perfectly preserved on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where culture has been given sustainable development. Enditem
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AFTERNOON
15 March 2021
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues, who echoed the words of the Secretary-General that the world faces a veritable tsunami of hatred and xenophobia. He said a treaty was needed to regulate hate speech in social media, and this must in particular focus on the most prevalent and harmful forms of hate – and that was hate against minorities.
Presenting his thematic report on hate speech, social media and minorities, Mr. de Varennes said hate speech in social media was spreading and increasing. “And we at the United Nations and in many countries may be failing in not naming and tackling this evil”. Where disaggregated data was available on hate speech in social media or on hate crimes, approximately 70 per cent or more of those targeted tended to belong to minorities. The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers, it started with hate speech against a mi
2021-03-10 12:35:46 GMT2021-03-10 20:35:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) Poverty reduction efforts in southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region were praised for their positive role in human rights improvement at a symposium held in Beijing on Tuesday.
China s precision poverty alleviation endeavors have delivered what amounts to a historic achievement in the autonomous region and thus gone a long way toward ensuring local residents inherent rights to subsistence and development, experts said at a side-event of the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Tibet s efforts to balance poverty relief with ecological protection and culture development also grabbed the limelight of the symposium. A host of progress was cited at the meeting in terms of cultural heritage protection, including the newly released versions of the Tibetan epic King Gesar.