Tibet Moratorium

What’s the Issue?

China’s large-scale development projects in Tibet, including dams, highways, and mining operations, threaten the region’s environment, cultural heritage, and the lives of Tibetan people. These projects serve China’s strategic interests in resource control and territorial claims but have devastating effects on Tibet’s ecosystem, ancient cultural sites, and the rights of its inhabitants.

Meanwhile, the West has partnered with China for mutual economic benefit while ignoring the occupation of Tibet, the exploitation of its natural resources, and the irreversible environmental damage inflicted on the region. Western and Chinese interests in the Green Energy transition continue to violate Tibetans’ rights to their lands and resources without their consent, resulting in the arrest, imprisonment, and torture of protesting Tibetans.

What are you asking for?

Australia Tibet Council is partnering with International Tibet Network, Free Tibet, Students for a Free Tibet, Tibet Action Institute and other Tibet Support Groups around the world to say “Hand’s off Tibet’s Land!” We are calling for a global moratorium on mining and mega development in Tibet. Currently, under occupation Tibetans have no way to consent environmental changes in Tibet. It’s Tibetan land and it should be Tibetans who decide how their rivers and non-renewable resources are used.

We’re calling for an international moratorium on mega development in illegally occupied Tibet until such a time when Tibetans are free to either provide their consent to such projects or refuse consent without fear of arrest and torture.

Failing to do so is investing in and supporting the continued occupation and oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government, and allowing the Chinese government to profit from the occupation and oppression of Tibetans.