Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities - GATPM

16/08/2026

05/08/2026

One month has passed since Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen set himself on fire outside United Nations Headquarters in on 2 July 2026, dying from his injuries that same evening. His protest came just one day after ’s and took effect, placing once again at the centre of the world’s conscience. It should never have required such an act to draw attention to a crisis decades in the making.

His voice carried weight because he spoke from lived experience: occupation as a child, flight as a young man, and two decades in exile watching the same policies he had fled intensify rather than ease. He saw how worship was policed, how Tibetan language was sidelined in schools, how communities were reshaped without consent. He was not reporting on others’ suffering. He was speaking for his family, his homeland and his people.

frames the law as essential for unity and progress; however, the same rhetoric has been used for years to justify policies replacing Tibetan language in classrooms, bringing monasteries under state control, and relocating populations without consultation or agreement. This rhetoric does not change the reality: a law that demands a people surrender their distinct identity is not equality. It is erasure by another name. .

António Guterres Annalena Baerbock

London | 5 August 2026 | Tsering Passang | One month has passed since Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen set himself on fire outside United Nations Headquarters in New York on 2 Ju…

01/08/2026

Chinese authorities have resumed demolitions at Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist institute, targeting approximately 1,060 monastic quarters belonging to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns, according to information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). The demolitions reportedly began on 13 July and are being carried out during the night.

Located in Serthar (Ch: Seda) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Larung Gar has been the target of repeated state-led demolition and eviction campaigns for more than two decades. Founded by the late Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok in 1980, the institute grew into the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist institute, attracting an estimated 10,000 monks, nuns, lay practitioners and students from across Tibet, China and abroad. Its reputation as one of the foremost centres of Buddhist learning made it a unique institution within Tibetan Buddhism and a vital centre for preserving Tibetan religious traditions.

TCHRD(Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy) International Campaign for Tibet

01/08/2026

’s Spiritual Leader and the 1989 laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama enjoying the pleasant weekend weather in the garden at his residence, Shewatsel Phodrang, in Leh, , on August 1, 2026. (Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama enjoying the pleasant weekend weather in the garden at his residence, Shewatsel Phodrang, in Leh, Ladakh, India on August 1, 2026. (Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel)