Included below are links to reports on human rights conditions in Tibet published by independent human rights organizations, NGOs, and government agencies.

In many instances, details on the human rights situation in Tibet are included within larger reports dealing with China or Asia in general. We plan to post these files in excerpted form soon.

Administration of Justice: Abuse of Human Rights
A survey of the Chinese criminal justice system and the widespread use of torture.

• UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  As early as 1959, the International Commission Jurists, an NGO with consultative status to the United Nations, was able to prove that in Tibet China was in violation of 16 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Articles 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 25. Ngawang Phulchung was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for translating the Universal Declaration into Tibetan.

• Search The U.N. Online Document Database:

INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTIONS ON TIBET, 1959 - present
By world governments, NGOs, etc. Index maintained by the Office of Tibet (London).

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

• People's Republic Of China: RELIGIOUS REPRESSION IN CHINA
  • Chapter 2: Official Policy: Renewed Focus on "National Unity and Patriotism"
  • Chapter 6: Repression Against Buddhists Discusses repression in Tibet, the Panchen Lama kidnapping, and disappearances.

• At least 1000 people executed since April 1996 in "strike hard" campaign against crime

• Amnesty's China Campaign (1996)
  • China: No One is Safe, Political repression and abuse of power in the 1990s (March 1996) Table of contents. Points of interest include:
  • China: Trading in Torture
  • Other Targets of Repression Tibetans, Muslims, and other religious groups.
  • Torture and Impunity
  • Conclusions And Recommendations

• Six years after Tiananmen: Increased political repression and human rights violations (1995)

• Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet (1995)

• 123 political arrests in Tibet in three months (12 MAY 1995) ASA 17/27/95

• Prison terms increased for nuns in Tibet (24 FEB 1994)

• Fourteen Monks Arrested In Tibet (21 FEB 1995)

• Heavy prison sentences for nuns in Tibet (2 FEB 1994)

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH / ASIAWATCH

• HRW World Report 1999: China & Tibet
  
  • Human Rights Developments
  • Defending Human Rights
  • The Role of the International Community
• HRW World Report 1998: China & Tibet
• Freedom of Religion in China, excerpt

• Political Prisoners in Tibet (ordering form)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES Official reports by the US Information Service office in Stockholm, Sweden.

• 1996 Country Reports On Human Rights (official archive)

• 1995 Country Reports On Human Rights (unofficial archive) Published March 1996.

SEARCH THE ANU-Tibetan-Human-Rights TEXT DATABASE