Dharamshala — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the importance of freedom of expression and acceptance of diversity, and encouraged China to do more to protect human rights.

Dharamshala — The 2015 annual report of the US State Department's International Religious Freedom , released on 10th August, documented a series of continuous cruelty on religious freedom committed by Chinese authorities in Tibet.

Leh, Ladakh, J&K — His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that Tibetans have no freedom inside Tibet, some hard-line Chinese officials see Tibetan identity as a threat to separate Tibet from China. Therefore, they have tried to eliminate  Tibetan culture and language.

Dharamshala – The two friends and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, joined a group of 250 faith leaders from around the world, signed an Interfaith Climate Statement, urging nations to sign on to the Paris climate agreement and called for scaling up ambition to combat climate change.

Dharamshala — China again ranked among the world's worst freedom of press offenders — joining Syria, North Korea and Eritrea — while Finland, Netherlands and Norway kept their place with the regions' most open media, Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog report released Wednesday said.

Paris — The 2016 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will publish on 20 April, shows that there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom at both the global and regional levels.