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Updated: 2 June 2011
Over the past three weeks, 75 out of the 150 MPs have received your letters. Thank you for speaking out for Tibet. Please email or call your MP today if you have not had a chance yet - we still have to reach out to the remaining 75 MPs.
12 May 2011
During our frequent lobbying trips to Canberra, we have been amazed to learn what an impact a meeting with the Dalai Lama can have on a politician. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be in Australia next month, and no doubt you are eagerly waiting for his arrival. As part of his exciting itinerary during his stay from 9 to 20 June, His Holiness will be visiting Parliament House in Canberra. A special parliamentary reception will be hosted in his honour on 14 June. We are asking you to seize this great opportunity to help build political support for Tibet in our parliament.
Please send an email to ask your local MP to attend this important reception by following these simple steps.
It is a rare occasion to have our nation’s decision makers in the same room as the Dalai Lama. They will be able to learn more about the Tibet issue and to hear His Holiness’ insights into the human values of compassion and non-violence and global issues such as universal responsibility and the environment, all of which the Dalai Lama champions across the world. Read more |
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2 June 2011
Our email campaign to strengthen political support for Tibet during the Dalai Lama’s upcoming visit to Canberra on 14 June has received a great response from our members. In the last three weeks, 75 out of the 150 MPs and 60 out of the 76 Senators have been asked to meet the Dalai Lama in Parliament House.
Please send an email to the Senators in your state and ask them to attend this important reception by following these simple steps.
The Dalai Lama’s visit to Parliament House offers a great opportunity to bring together decision-makers from both houses to discuss a range of issues from Tibet to the environment. |
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05 April 2011
China has intensified its crackdown on religious and political freedom in eastern Tibet in the wake of a protest sparked by the self-immolation of a monk from Kirti Monastery in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba county in Sichuan province) on 16 March. An indefinite ban on religious activities has been imposed at the monastery, a stronghold of Tibetan resistance in 2008. Dozens of Tibetans have been arrested in relation to the protest.
Click to send a message calling on PM Julia Gillard and other world leaders to stand up for Tibet and demand China stop its crackdown on free speech
The repression in Tibet coincides with the harshest crackdown on free expression in China in recent years. As calls for a Chinese ‘Jasmine Revolution’ began to circulate online in recent weeks, the Chinese government has honed in on a number of writers, lawyers and activists for ‘subverting state power’. Chinese-Australian political blogger Yang Hengjun disappeared in Guangzhou last week only to resurface few days later to say he has been in hospital and world-renowned artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was detained at Beijing airport over the weekend.
According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, the government has “criminally detained 26 individuals, disappeared more than 30 and put more than 200 under soft detention” since mid-February. |
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2009 marks 50 years since the Dalai Lama fled into exile and Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule in Tibet. After five decades of courageous non-violent resistance, Tibetans continue to be denied the basic right to freely express their identity and practice their religious and cultural traditions. The Chinese Government has so far rejected the Dalai Lama’s “Middle Way” proposal for genuine autonomy within the People’s Republic of China and Tibet remains in a state of “undeclared martial law”. Read more |
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Click below to send Mr Howard a prayer flag urging him to publicly support the Dalai Lama’s Middle Way approach and to offer Australia as a neutral venue for talks between China and the Dalai Lama. |
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