Archives: Annual Activities

10th December: Universal Human Rights Day

In 1948, the United Nations adopted and declared this day as Universal Human Rights Day in order to respect human valuew. Tibetans observe this day to protest against the Chinese …

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7th October: TYC Founding Day

In 1970, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) was established in Dharamshala with the blessing of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 315 delegates from 16 different Tibetan communities in India and Nepal …

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27th September: Commemoration of 1987 Uprising in Lhasa

On this day in 1987, about 150-200 lay people and 26 monks demonstrated in the street of Lhasa shouting “Tibet is independent” and asking the Chinese to quit Tibet. Chinese …

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2nd September: Tibetan Democracy Day

From the time His Holiness the Dalai Lama sought refuge in India in 1959, he has concerned himself with the secular education of his people and with establishing representative, democratic …

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13th July: Order No. 5

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6th July: Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

A young boy Lhamo Dhondup was born to a farming family in a small village called Taktser, in the northeast of Tibet on 6th July 1935. At the age of …

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23rd May: 17th Point Agreement of 1951

After the occupation of eastern Tibet’s provincial capital, Chamdo, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on May 23, 1951, threatening further military invasion, forced Tibet to sign the “17 Point …

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29th April: Death anniversary of Pawo Thupten Ngodup

Tibetan Youth Congress organised a Hunger Strike unto Death in Delhi in 1998 to pressure the United Nations to implement the International Commission of Jurist recommendation of 1997 report on …

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25th April: Birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was born on April 25, 1989 in Lhari district of Nagchu, Tibet. At the age of six he was proclaimed as the true reincarnation of the late …

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10th March: Tibetan National Uprising Day

In 1959, thousands of Tibetans marched in Lhasa to strongly protest against the Chinese illegal occupation of Tibet, which breaks the Tibetan National Uprising. China crushed the uprising, wiping out …

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