SOURCE: Times of Tibet, 3/22/04
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The State Department is still formulating draft language for the resolution and is working with potential cosponsors to develop a strategy for securing passage of the resolution.
 
ICT has been urging the U.S. to use the UN rights commission session to follow up its tough findings contained in the State Department's annual country reports on human rights practices. This year's report characterized China's human rights record in Tibet as "poor," describing a situation whereby "authorities continued to commit serious human rights abuses, including execution without due process, torture, arbitrary arrest, detention without public trial, and lengthy detention of Tibetans for peacefully expressing their political or religious views."
 
ICT has also worked with the office of Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ) in support of a House resolution that overwhelmingly passed earlier this month calling on the Bush Administration to insist that China adhere to human rights norms and sponsor China resolution at UN human rights commission.
 
ICT staff from both the U.S. and Europe will be in Geneva to bring attention to the human rights situation in Tibet and lobby Commission delegates in support of a strong resolution that addresses the human rights situation in Tibet. Click here for more inflormation. 

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