Geneva — Tibetan researcher Tenzin Dorjee delivered a powerful speech at a panel discussion during the 18th United Nations Forum on Minority Issues. Chinese representatives twice attempted to prevent him from speaking the truth, but failed. He revealed to representatives from 26 countries that the Chinese government had locked up more than one million people from East Turkistan in detention camps, banned the use of the Mongolian language, and used the classic colonial tool of boarding schools to strip approximately one million Tibetan children of their language, culture, and identity.

New York — 15 countries, including the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Czech Republic, have expressed deep concern over the Chinese government's serious human rights violations in Tibet and other regions, particularly the persistent use of arbitrary detention, forced labour, illegal or arbitrary mass surveillance, restrictions on religious and cultural expression, the separation of children from their families in boarding schools, torture and the destruction of cultural heritage.

Prague — The Prague Declaration on Freedom of Religion or Belief 2025 reaffirms that Tibetan Buddhists have the right to choose the 15th Dalai Lama, not the Chinese government (CCP). The declaration states: ‘As the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, we reaffirm that Tibetan Buddhists have the right to choose their religious leaders, including the next Dalai Lama.’

Washington, D.C. — Sam Brownback, former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, urged the United States to support His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Middle Way Approach. "If China does not grant genuine autonomy to Tibet within 60 days, the United States should recognise Tibet's independence", said the Ambassador, during the Congressional-Executive Commission on China's hearing entitled "China's War on Religion," on November 20, 2025.

Brussels — Rigzin Genkhang, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet, highlighted the Chinese government's erasure of Tibetan identity, evidence of persecution of Tibetans, and the self-immolations of Tibetans who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Tibet and call for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which brings together 60 legislators from more than 29 countries.

Dharamshala — The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has awarded its 2025 Democracy Service Medal to the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was forcibly abducted by the Chinese government at the age of six, becoming the world's youngest prisoner. NED states," This award affirms Tibetan Buddhists’ fundamental right to choose their own spiritual leaders free of Chinese Communist Party interference and highlights Beijing’s campaign to control Tibetan succession, including that of the Dalai Lama, who turned 90 this year. "