Mar 12 2009
Tibetan Women’s Association honors Fifty Years of Tibetan Women in the Freedom Struggle
March 12th, 2009: Today is a historically significant date for Tibetan women across the globe as they stand in observance of the 50th founding anniversary of the National Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day in Lhasa, Tibet. Â In chronicling 50 years of struggle, …
Jan 08 2009
A beacon of truth casting light on Tibet’s dark history under Chinese tyranny, 40-year-old Woeser authors various kinds of literature, employing her extraordinary talent in Chinese, to praise her Tibetan heritage and correct China’s red interpretation of Tibet’s past, especially the 1966 to 1976 Cultural Revolution. The now internationally-recognized …
Dec 18 2008
Walza Norzin Wangmo from the Kyungchu township of Ngaba County, was after seven months of detention, sentenced on 3 November 2008 to five years imprisonment. She was imprisoned due to sharing information about what she had witnessed in Tibet over the phone and Internet. This sentence was later reduced and she is schedule for release …
Jun 13 2008
Treating it as a very sensitive and urgent case involving the rights of the child and that of a mother, TWA donned a pivotal role in joining the other prominent voices accelerating the call for the release of the Panchen Lama. TWA is acutely concerned because China seeks to legitimize its rule in Tibet by …
Mar 12 2008
March 12, 2008: 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 …
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