Tibetan Women's Association

The Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement
The Tibetan people stand at an important crossroads as two historic moments approach; the Beijing 2008 Olympics in China and the 50th commemoration of the March 1959 uprising against China’s occupation of Tibet...

Tibetan Women’s Association seeks the release of the 30 Tibetans sentenced to imprisonment.
In yet another unprecedented and unfair move, The Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa on 29th April, 2008 convicted 30 Tibetans and doled out a harsh and unjust punishment by sentencing them to a term of three years to life imprisonment for their alleged role in the recent riots in Lhasa...

TWA marks the 19th Birthday of Tibet’s Panchen Lama.
Today the 25th of April, 2008, is a day of great joy as the Tibetans all the over the world mark and celebrate the 19th Birthday of H.H the 11th Panchen Lama. At the same time it is a sad day for us as this precious golden boy of Tibet at the age of six, was abducted by the Chinese government...

A resilient writing: a powerful projection of current Tibet according to Tang Danhong Tang Danhong,(born in 1965 ) is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She has made several documentaries in and about Tibet since the 1990s. She wrote the following essay this week and published it on her own blog...

An Earnest Urgent Appeal We call upon all the World Leaders of governments, religions, businesses, and all organizations not to condemn us with your silence. Please support us, as we feel helpless. Without your support we are handicapped. Please ask the Chinese ministry to stop this mass massacre of Tibetans who are dumped into pits, sliced into pieces and bathed in blood...

Urgent Statement from TWA Tibet today is in shambles, as after two decades, the world witnesses the biggest and the largest mass protest by the Tibetans in Tibet. Hundreds of Tibetans have been killed and many critically wounded. Hunger strike, suicide attempts, burning down of shops, Chinese flags and police cars have been the highlight of the demonstration...

TWA's March 12th Statement
Today, on the 49th anniversary of the National Tibetan Women’s Uprising day, TWA calls upon our fellow sisters around the world to pay our deep homage to those brave Tibetan women who created history on March 12th, 1959 by staging the first ever mass protest of women in Lhasa against the illegal occupation of Tibet by Communist China ...