Tibetan Women's Association

The Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement
The Tibetan people stand at an important crossroads as two historic moments approach; the Beijing 2008 Olympics in China and the 50th commemoration of the March 1959 uprising against China’s occupation of Tibet...

Tibetan writer, a rare outspoken voice against Beijing's policies, sues Chinese government
BEIJING, July 23 - The poet Woeser has long been a rarity _ a Tibetan living in China who doesn't flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government. Now the activist is taking another unusual step...

Statement of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement We are today at the crossroad of historic moment in the Tibetan people's struggle for freedom, truth and justice. Our unity in action and focus in purpose during the following months will not only define the long and strategic preparations that we have made for the 2008 Beijing Olympics but more importantly to realize the true political aspirations of our brothers and sisters who made great sacrifices in Tibet...

Sting, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, & other top artists send a music message of support to Tibet & the Dalai Lama Washington DC, (July 21, 2008) - The Art of Peace Foundation announced today that more than a dozen of the world's top contemporary musical artists, including Sting, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, Suzanne Vega, Rush, Imogen Heap, Garbage, Damien Rice, Moby, Underworld, Duncan Sheik and many more have been brought together to create an album of 20 songs entitled, 'Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace'...

TALKING BACK: Tibetan Women’s Writing Workshop, June 2008
Fours weeks of reading, meditating, thinking, discussing and writing took place during the month of June. TWA is in a genuine bid to empower Tibetan Women on the literary front. Encompassing the Tibetan society in exile with a breed of intellectual Tibetan Women is in our strongest vision. Hard work! ufff...but worthwhile we all thought. Four young Tibetan women(in the picture) met weekly with Cristina Bonnet, a graduate student from Stanford University and Vali, an experienced photographer from France, in order to write...

TWA holds one-day women's empowerment workshop on Leadership Skills, Trauma, Healing and Reconciliation in conjunction with IMTD, USA June 28 2008: TWA hosted a one-day event in Dharamsala to teach 22 young Tibetan women invaluable leadership skills, and techniques for dealing with traumatic events in their lives. The 22 participants benefited from the considerable experience of 3 members of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, an academic institution based in the USA, who combined group exercises, leaflets and a video to illustrate their methods. Ambassador John McDonald (a US diplomat first appointed by President Jimmy Carter. He has worked in UN affairs and is a major peace keeper. He has been working all over the world as a conflict resolution specialist)

TWA makes an earnest and an urgent appeal letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal. We are making an earnest appeal to seek your intervention regarding an urgent crisis that befalls the Tibetans in exile. The recent arbitrary arrests of the President of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, Mrs. Ngawang Sangmo, the Vice-President of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, Mrs. Tashi Dolma and the Director of the Tibetan Reception Center, Mr. Kelsang Chung on Thursday, 19 June 2008 and their sentence of 90 days in detention is highly unacceptable...

TWA marks the 13th year in captivity of the 19 year old 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet May 17th 2008: Tibetan Women’s Association marks the thirteenth year of the abduction of the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet. The then six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima along with his family were abducted by the Chinese authorities just three days after His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the 11th Panchen Lama...

TWA condemns the wave of arrests of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Tibet.
In yet another unfortunate turn of events, the Chinese security forces have arrested more than hundred Tibetan Buddhist nuns after they led a series of peaceful protest against the brutal Chinese regime in Tibet. According to Free Tibet Campaign, following the April 23 arrests of Bumo Lhaga and Sonam Dekyi from Drakar in Tibet, ten nuns from the Gaden Choeling nunnery in Kardze County were arrested on May 12 after protesting against the detention of the two nuns on April 23. Botsun, Trinley Sonam Yangtso, Tamdrin Tsekyi (36), Lhamo Choekyi (44), Dekyi, Bumo Yangkyi (21) – all from Serchu township in Kardze county – and Champa Lhamo, Trinley and Bumo Taga – all from Karak town in Kardze county...

Tibetan Women’s Association celebrates International Mother's Day
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It is a mother who strives, seeks and never yields. Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many places around the world. Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins. But a host of countries including India and the United States celebrate it on the second Sunday of the month of May...