Tag Archive: Tibetan Women’s Association

Apr 24 2013

TWA’s Week long 5th Annual Buddhist Nun’s Empowerment Program, 2013 successfully concluded

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Photos of the seven-day training can be viewed at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tibetanwomen/sets/72157633317052388/

Selakui, April 24, 2013: This year’s Nuns Empowerment Program, the 5th in series organized by Tibetan Women’s Association, concluded successfully, held at the Tibetan SOS Vocational Training Centre, Selakui, Dehradun.

The week-long ‘5th Annual Nun’s Empowerment Program,’ held from April …

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Apr 09 2013

Students from Stitches of Tibet visited the Golden Temple

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Students from Stitches of Tibet visited the Golden Temple, officially known as The Harmandir Sahib, in Amritsar, Punjab during the weekend of March 8-9th. Construction for this Gurdwara, a place of worship for Sikhs, began in the 1500s. In the early 1800s, the Gurdwara was covered in gold, …

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Mar 22 2013

Pressure China to enter into appropriate water-sharing agreement

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c/o International Tibet Network 1310 Fillmore Street, #401 San Francisco, CA 94115, USA

22 March 2013

To: Environment Ministers of the Governments of India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. cc Mrs Irina Bokuva, Director General, UNESCO

Your Excellencies,

Today is World Water …

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Mar 15 2013

Tibetan Women stages a ‘shout out to Chinese leaders’ campaign as Xi takes over

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Tibetan Women stages a ‘shout out to Chinese leaders’ campaign as Xi takes over

Women scream for urgent measures to resolve the Tibet crisis

March 14, 2013, New Delhi: As Xi Jinping formally assumed the Chinese presidency today, 200 Tibetan women staged a ‘shout-out to Chinese leaders campaign’ …

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Mar 11 2013

Central and Regional Tibetan Women’s Association commemorate the 54th Anniversary of National Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day

Today on March 12th 2013, we, the Tibetan Women’s Association, commemorate the 54th anniversary of National Tibetan Women’s Uprising Day. March 12, 1959 is a significant day in the history of Tibetan women, a date on which Tibetan women rose against the brutal crackdown of the Chinese government in …

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