Source: phayul.com

By Kalsang Rinchen

Dharamsala, 29-03-2011 – A five – member "Constitutional Amendment Drafting Committee" representing both Kashag (Cabinet) and the Parliament in exile was formed yesterday as per a resolution passed unanimously on the last day of the 14th Tibetan parliament's regular session (budget session) that concluded last week. 

The committee is formed of Speaker Penpa Tsering, Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche (prime minister), Deputy Speaker Dolma Gyari, Education Kalon (Education Minister) Thupten Lungrik & former speaker Pema Jungney.

The Tibetan parliament had a consensus after heated debates over several days to amend the Charter of Tibetans in Exile paving way for the Dalai Lama's proposal to relinquish his political powers vested in him by the Charter.

By Tenzin Tsundue, 29-03-2011

Published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 13, Dated 02 Apr 2011

Young Tibetans have grappled for years with the radical idea of a Tibet without the Dalai Lama. Now, as His Holiness steps down, Tenzin Tsundue traces their difficult moment of change

My Gandhian guru, Rajiv Voraji, once told me a tale of a small kingdom ruled by a brute who’d break his subjects’ backs with heavy taxes while he made merry. The poor farmers, unable to revolt, left for a jungle. When the king’s rations finished, he realised his mistake and journeyed to the jungle, knelt down and begged them to return, saying, “I am not your king but your servant.”

By Phurbu Thinley

Dharamsala, March 23: Tibet’s Parliament in exile will hold far-reaching discussion to make all necessary amendments to The Charter of Tibetans in Exile that will formally legalise the Dalai Lama’s decision to pass on his political power to an elected leadership.

The Parliament on Monday constituted a high-level special committee headed by the Prime Minister Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche with the task to find ways to amend the Tibetan constitution to facilitate the smooth transition of Dalai Lama's political power to an elected leadership. Deputy Speaker Gyari Dolma and member of the parliament Mr Lhamo Kyab were the other members of the committee.

The committee was instructed by the parliament to submit a report on the matter by Wednesday.

“L’Amministrazione provinciale – ha concluso Zingaretti – è disposta e intenzionata a fare la sua parte perchè la libertà e il rispetto dei diritti umani in Tibet sono condizione ineludibile perché il mondo possa dirsi veramente civile”.“Il nostro obiettivo – ha spiegato il presidente Nicola Zingaretti - è quello di aiutare, sostenere e ascoltare le associazioni per mettere l’Istituzione Provincia al servizio di un progetto che sia concretamente utile per la causa tibetana. Per questo la Provincia ha deciso di accogliere e sostenere un progetto, proposto dalle associazioni, per il mantenimento dell'identità tibetana attraverso la conservazione della lingua e la formazione degli insegnanti”.

Italy Polling Booth for Kalon and Chitue Election 2011

Election Date - 20th March, 2011

Timing - 09 -17.00

Source: phayul.com. 15-03-2011

By Kalsang Rinchen


Dharamsala, March 15 - The Spanish High Court has issued a court ruling allowing the Comité de Apoyo al Tíbet (CAT) and the Fundación Casa del Tíbet to appeal the Audiencia Nacionals’ decision to shelve a lawsuit against three Chinese ministers and five senior communist party officials. 

In February 2010, Judge Santiago Pedráz of the Central Court Nº 1 said the court could no longer handle the case after a new law restricted its powers to investigate human rights cases abroad. Pedráz said the investigation would have to be dropped against the Chinese leaders due to the change in the law regarding universal jurisdiction in 2009, as the lawsuit neither involved Spanish victims nor were the accused on Spanish soil.