Tibetan Women's Association

Full report from 2011′s Advanced Tibetan Women’s Leadership Training now available

The Empowerment through Action Desk (ETA) of TWA, organized a 10 – day Advanced Leadership Training (November 21st to 30th), second in the series  and held in Delhi. The training was led by 3 core trainers – Vicki Robinson from …

Global Tibet Movement Condemns China’s Escalating Crackdown after Tibetans shot and beaten in eastern Tibet

Vows to Intensify Efforts for Multilateral Pressure on China as Tibetans continue to Self-immolate for Freedom

January 23, 2012: The 185 Tibet advocacy organizations that form the International Tibet Network (1) strongly condemn China’s policies and continued crackdown in Tibet …

Conference on TIBET THE THIRD POLE and ITS IMPACT ON ASIA’S FUTURE

Time, Day and Date: 6 pm – 8 pm (120 minutes), Monday, 9 January 2012.

Venue: TWA tent, in- front of Namgyal Monastery Guest House, opposite Gate number one, Bodhgaya.

Featuring a panel of experts:

• Michael Buckley, Traveller Writer and Filmmaker on …
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Advocacy for Homeland and Action in Exile stand as the bottomline

Bodhgaya, January 2, 2012: The Tibetan Women’s Association and its globalnetwork of regional chapters are organizing a series of actions during the32nd Kalachakra initiation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Keeping Tibetans inside Tibet as the key audience, TWA has organized for aseries …

Dharamsala, January 2: Tibetan Women’s Association and Tibet Third Pole have launched a petition to the Ministry of Environment Protection of The People’s Republic of China. The petition appeals to the PRC to halt the forced removal of nomads from Tibet’s pastureland since this is not a climate mitigation measure …

Dolma: The Intellectual Expression of and for Tibetan Women

A Reader’s Impression of Dolma Magazine, by Vicki Robinson, Political Organizer and Women’s Rights Activist based in Canada

November 2011: The newly published 22nd edition of Dolma is colorful, inviting and dramatic and is a “must read” for all those interested in the literary and intellectual …

Tibetans advocate climate justice for Tibet at UN Climate conference

TWA delegates representing ‘Tibet Third Pole’ for COP-17 meeting completes the first week at Durban

Durban, December 5, 2011: Two members of TWA: Tenzin Woebum, head of Women’s Environment and Development Desk (WEDD) and Tenzin Dolma, Joint secretary, who represent Tibet Third Pole (T3P)[1], …

Symposium on ‘Women’s Leadership in the 21st Century’ marks the culmination of 10-day Women’s Leadership Training

TWA’s ‘2nd Advanced Leadership Training’ for Tibetan Women Successfully concluded

New Delhi, December 1, 2011: The Advanced Tibetan Women’s Leadership Training (ATWLT), the second in the series, an undertaking of Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) reached its pinnacle …

A Symposium: ‘Women’s Leadership in the 21st century, a noble achievement’

Delhi, November 28: On the momentus occasion of South Asian Women’s Day, and as a culmination of the concluding session of the 2nd Advanced Tibetan Women’s Leadership Training, the Tibetan Women’s Association is organizing a 90 minute audience based discussion on the topic ‘Women’s …

Dharamsala, November 22: On Friday November 11 Tenzin Woebum, from the Women’s Environment and Development Desk (WEDD) of TWA joined with Tenzin Norbu, Head of Environment and Development Desk of DIIR, Central Tibetan Administration, to appear on Tibetan language channel VOT to discuss Chinese policies of nomad resettlement across Tibet.

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