“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
Ms. Rinzin Choedon, Tibetan activist working as the National Director at the Students for a Free Tibet India, quotes Martin Luther King Jr. to underline the essential requirement of exercising conscience in the face of injustice and oppression.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) launched today the #WhyProtest digital campaign to promote and protect the right to freedom of peaceful assembly or the right to protest. The right to protest is universally recognised as a fundamental human right that is crucial to creating a tolerant and pluralistic society in which groups with different beliefs, practices, or policies can coexist peacefully. This fundamental right is necessary for the exercise of other human rights.