Dharamshala: - A coalition of 39 Tibetan organizations and Tibet support groups across the United States sent a letter today to President Barack Obama asking that Tibet be a substantive part of the agenda during his meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on January 19th.

Dharamshala: - Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to the United States from January 18 to 21, 2011. Along with Regional Tibetan Youth Congress NY & NJ, CATA, ICT, Initiatives for China, and many other rights groups, United Nations for a Free Tibet calls on people to join protest rallies in Washington D.C and Chicago against Chinese President Hu Jintao and to highlight the Tibet issue when he meets President Obama.

Dharamshala: The Communist Chinese Government has failed to deliver on commitments in its first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan (2009-2010) to protect key civil and political rights over the past two years, Washington based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Dharamshala: Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights convened a hearing on Tibet, including "the status of dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership, and human rights situation inside Tibet".

Taipei: A campaign for Tibet and Taiwan, walk "for World Peace and Human Rights, and Tibetan Independence" will be held in Taiwan to mark the International Human Rights Day. Each year hundreds of thousands of people across the world mark the Day on December 10 by taking part in the anniversary of the Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by Jamia Millia Islamia University. The honorary doctorate degree "a university with a Muslim flavour", was special for Tibet's leader.

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