As a crucial organ of the United Nations General Assembly aimed at promoting and protecting human rights, the Human Rights Council plays a pivotal role in advancing global human rights development. We sincerely admire this role and express high appreciation for your commitment to upholding guiding principles such as universality, impartiality, objectivity, non-selectivity, as well as constructive international dialogue and cooperation in your work.

 

We have noticed, over the past period, organizations including the so-called International Federation for Human Rights, International Campaign for Tibet(Xizang) and Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, have been using the platform of the Human Rights Council to spread false information and cause trouble on a large scale, with the purpose of attacking and smearing China. They fabricated lies such as “colonial boarding school system” “repression of Tibetan Buddhism” “systematic attacks on the Tibetan language” “limit the rights to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of peaceful association and assembly” “denial of the legal rights of detainees and prisoners” “torture and other forms of ill-treatment”, attempting to manipulate the Human Rights Council into making biased statements on the issue of Xizang, inciting other countries to attack and criticize China. These practices of distorting right and wrong completely ignore the history and reality of Xizang, disregarding the tremendous achievements in the development of human rights in Xizang, lacking basic objectivity and truthfulness. Once successful, it will significantly impact the credibility of the Human Rights Council, seriously disrupt the enthusiasm and expectations of normal participation by countries worldwide and global NGOs in the working mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, greatly harm the sentiments of the 1.4 billion people in China including Xizang, and severely misguide the global populace’s accurate understanding and international public opinion of Xizang. We strongly oppose the maliciously fabricated and baseless accusations, object to the politicization, instrumentalization, and stigmatization of human rights in Xizang. 

 

In today’s Xizang, governments at all levels and people of all ethnicities are making efforts to promote political stability, social harmony, economic development, national unity, religious harmony, rule of law, and ecological well-being. They are working to ensure more comprehensive protection of basic human rights. The people of Xizang have firsthand experiences of these efforts, and many foreign media outlets that have visited Xizang have also provided extensive and objective coverage.

 

Rumors originate from schemers, thrive among the foolish, and cease with the wise. We strongly urge the Human Rights Council to remember the original intention and mission of establishing the universal periodic review mechanism, eliminate confusing noises, prevent lies and false accusations impacting the Council’s consideration of significant human rights issues with genuine practical significance. We call for the respect of legitimate information provided by member states and the making of objective, rational, and fair judgments.

 

24 January 2024

 

 

1. Chongqing Centre for Equal Social Development

 

2. China Society for Human Rights Studies

 

3. China Foundation For Human Rights Development

 

4. China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture

 

5. China Tibetology Research Center

 

6. High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China

 

7. Xizang’s Academy of Social Science 

 

8. Xizang Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences

 

9. Tibet University

 

10. Xizang Minzu University

 

11. University of Xizang Medicine

 

12. Xizang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry University

 

13. Women’s Federation of Xizang Autonomous Region

 

14. Xizang Federation of Literary and Art Circles

 

15. Xizang Autonomous Region Federation of Industry and Commerce

 

16. Xizang Branch of China Buddhist Association

 

17. Xizang Disabled Persons’ Federation

 

18. Internet Society of Xizang

 

19. Xizang Youth Development Foundation

 

20. Xizang Autonomous Region Women’s Development Association 

 

21. Xizang Starlight Social Work Service Center

 

22. South Asia Research Center of Sichuan University 

 

23. Human Rights Law Research Center of Sichuan University

 

24. Pan-Himalayan Communication Research Center of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

 

25. Sichuan Normal University China Western Frontier Research Institute

 

26. Southwest Minzu University Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor Research Base for Fostering a Stronger Sense of the Chinese Nation as One Community

 

27. Research centre for Fostering a Stronger Sense of the Chinese Nation as One Community

 

28. Aba Vocational College

 

29. Aba Teachers College

 

30. Ganzi Vocational College

 

31. Sichuan Architecture Industry Chamber of Commerce

 

32. Sichuan Chuanlian Retail Industry Chamber of Commerce

 

33. Sichuan Tourism Chamber of Commerce

 

34. Sichuan Chuanlian Agricultural Industrialization Leading Enterprise Association

 

35. Sichuan Chuanlian Sports Industry Chamber of Commerce

 

36. Sichuan Cultural Industry Chamber of Commerce

 

37. Sichuan landscape Industry Association

 

38. Sichuan Chuanlian SME Chamber of Commerce

 

39. Aba Teachers College non-party intellectuals Association

 

40. Yunnan University

 

41. Kunming University of Science and Technology

 

42. Yunnan University of Finance and Economics

 

43. Yunnan Agricultural University

 

44. Yunnan Normal University

 

45. Southwest Forestry University

 

46. Dali University

 

47. Kunming University

 

48. Yunnan Province Association for Southeast Asian Studies

 

49. Yunnan National Unity Progress Association

 

50. Yunnan Youth Development Foundation

 

51. Yunnan Alternative Development Association 

 

52. Yunnan Charity Federation

 

53. Institute for Central Asian Studies Lanzhou University

 

54. Research Center of Northwest Minority Education Development, Northwest Normal University

 

55. Gansu National Unity and Progress of the Cause of Innovation and Wisdom of the Treasury

 

56. Gansu Institute of Silk Road Economic Studies

 

57. New Urbanization Construction and Research Center for Precision Poverty Alleviation in Minority Areas of Gansu

 

58. Research Center of Ecological Construction and Environmental Protection

 

59. The Research Center for Modern Agriculture and Rural Social Integration Development in Gansu Province

 

60. Gansu Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Inheritance and Development Research Think Tank

 

61. Research Center for Rural Governance and Development-Oriented Poverty Alleviation of Lanzhou Jiaotong University

 

62. Key Laboratory of Digital Protection Technology Research  Intangible Cultural Heritage

 

63. Qinghai University

 

64. Qinghai Minzu University

 

65. Qinghai Normal University

 

66. Qinghai Open University

 

67. Qinghai Association for Science and Technology

 

68. Qinghai Disabled Persons' Federation

 

69. Qinghai Provincial Federation of Literature and Art Circles

 

70. Red Cross Society of Qinghai

 

71. Qinghai Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce

 

72. Qinghai Federation of Trade Unions

 

73. Qinghai Provincial Women's Federation