Overview

• The Tibet Action Institute’s Hindi translation of “When They Came to Take Our Children” was launched on July 11 to coincide with the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday and broaden public awareness in India.
• Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar and other Indian lawmakers have formally urged the United Nations to investigate alleged coercive policies behind China’s compulsory boarding schools in Tibet.
• Human rights organizations and members of India’s Core Group for Tibetan Cause have mobilized petitions and forum discussions pressing for a UN-led inquiry and enforcement of past Special Rapporteur demands.
• The updated report documents that over one million Tibetan children, including up to 100,000 preschoolers aged 4–6, are confined in state-run boarding institutions where they face abuse, neglect, and systematic denial of their mother tongue and religious practices.
• China defends the schools as providing quality education even as UN experts, the United States, and India intensify criticism over the program’s role in forced assimilation.