A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

  • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    In 2026, HRW’s Israel and Palestine director resigned after HRW blocked a report that argued that Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right of return is a “crime against humanity”.

    Hmm. The more you know.

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      11 hours ago

      These are the people who pretend to be super concerned about the Tibetan language while ignoring that Tibet enjoys being an Autonomous Republic within China (with all the added political power), that Tibetan is the official language in the Tibetan Autonomous Republic, and that the number of Tibetan speakers has skyrocketed from about 1mn in the 1950s to about 6mn nowadays. For comparison, in 1920 there were about 1mn speakers of Occitan in southern France and now there are about 100k and Occitan still doesn’t enjoy any official character