
On Monday this week, a 17-year old monk named Sangay Gyatso was arbitrarily detained by local Public Security Bureau officers for staging a solo protest on the main street of Ngaba County town…
“没有安全,我们就无法享有发展;没有发展,我们就无法享有安全;不尊重人权,我们既不能享有安全,也不能享有发展。”
联合国前秘书长科菲·安南
今天是《世界人权宣言》通过70周年,这是人权史上具有里程碑意义的文件,它保障所有人的公民、经济、政治和文化权利,这些权利是普遍的,不可剥夺的, 不可分割,相互依存和相互关联。

随着《世界人权宣言》年满70岁,对保护、促进和实现所有人的人权仍然存在紧迫的挑战和威胁。 在世界许多地方,我们正在目睹对人权的强烈反对,对人权维护者的越来越多的报复以及民间社会行为者不断缩小的空间。 像中国这样强大的国家正在重新定义人权方面取得进展,正如最近所看到的那样,一党专政在联合国成功地推动“发展”成为所有人权中最重要的人权,也是享受所有其他人权的前提条件。

“We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.”
~ Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Today is the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a landmark document in the history of human rights that guarantees for all human beings the civil, economic, political and cultural rights that are universal, inalienable, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

为了纪念哲蚌寺僧人30年前在拉萨木版印刷《世界人权宣言》藏文译本,在西藏自由斗争史上所做的宝贵贡献,以及《世界人权宣言》发表70周年之际,西藏人权与民主促进中心开通藏文版的全新网站。
11月30日是中共对所谓西藏“十人集团”的僧侣严判翻译发行西藏文《世界人权宣言》的日期。1988年西藏哲蚌寺的10名僧人秘密翻译并用木板印刷《世界人权宣言》被中国当局指控僧人发行“反动文学”和“毒害中国以人民民主专政为特征的社会主义制度”。 对所谓的“十人集团”僧侣被判处5年至19年不等的徒刑。因此,为了纪念《世界人权宣言》藏文版印刷30周年西藏人权与民主促进中心11月30日举行了特别纪念活动,并开通新的西藏文网站介绍人权知识。

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) today unveiled a new Tibetan language website on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) at an event held at the conference hall of Hotel Tibet, Dharamshala, India.
The website honours the memory and legacy of ten monks from Drepung Monastery, also known as ‘Group of Ten’, who were tortured and imprisoned for distributing the Tibetan translation of UDHR in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.

“In the decree declared in hell, every one of those people is considered a criminal and imprisoned with both hands and legs shackled, the name of their crime is the love for…

The expanding tentacles of the security state accompanied by increased government repression in Tibet has claimed the life of yet another Tibetan in a self-immolation witnessed in Ngaba County, Ngaba (Ch: Aba)…