| | | China is forcing 1 million Tibetan children to forget about their language and culture in indoctrination boarding schools where they face abuse, anxiety and depression. They're trying to cover it up but a UN investigation could force the truth out into broad daylight. Sign and share our call to the UN rights chief. | | | | | Dear friends, | | Three out of four.
That's how many children China is forcing into boarding schools in Tibet, where they face abuse and are indoctrinated until they no longer speak the same language as their parents.
Many of these children often spend weeks or even months without seeing their parents, who say they're simply not allowed to visit. Cut off from home, Tibetan children are only taught Mandarin and the love of the Chinese Communist Party, until their culture and religion is erased.
Now China is trying to cover it up while rooting out Tibetan culture for 1 million children. That's where we come in.
Reporters just exposed the scandal thanks to brave Tibetan experts and teachers – and a UN investigation could force the truth of China's indoctrination schools into broad daylight. Tibetan activists want to bring this call to the UN rights chief in days, before he addresses the Human Rights Council – and a big petition will get his attention! Sign and share now. | | | | | Chinese authorities claim these schools prepare children for the modern economy and that parents send them voluntarily. But parents have little to no choice when their children are taken away from them, and any protests could land them in jail.
From the U.S. to Australia and Canada, the world has seen the horrors and trauma that these indoctrination schools cause for Indigenous children. Tibetan children face routine beatings, anxiety, and depression, while being forced to celebrate China's 1959 military takeover as liberation.
But China doesn't want the world to know, and its powerful censorship takes down any evidence of abuse from the Internet - like when a teacher was filmed beating a child with a chair inside his classroom. That's why we need the UN rights chief to launch an investigation before China's erasure of Tibetan culture is complete. Add your name and share this petition now. | | | | A centuries-old culture is under threat of being erased by one of the world's biggest powers. And our movement cannot stay silent. Over a million of us stood with the Uyghurs as they also faced China's persecution and cultural annihilation. And when Russia stole Ukrainian children to indoctrinate them, our campaign ramped up pressure so Putin would face criminal charges. Let's be the lifeline Tibetan children today so the world doesn't forget about them.
With hope and determination,
John, Antonia, Nate, Mo, and the whole Avaaz team | | | | | | |
