Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

TJC engages the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for Tibet; Committee due to review China’s record in 2014.

Tibet Justice Center (TJC), supported by the Boston University Human Rights Law Clinic, submitted a report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on China’s detrimental policies and practices in Tibet which effect the rights to self-determination, non-discrimination, work, health, education, adequate standard of living, and cultural life of the Tibetan people. We followed the report with a trip to Geneva in May 2013, where we briefed the pre-session working group of the Committee further on Tibet-related concerns, in order to help frame their initial discussions with China around Tibet before the main review in 2014. Tibet Justice Center and Boston University Human Rights Law Clinic will again be joining up to return to Geneva in 2014 to raise more awareness around the Committee review of China’s human rights violations of the Tibetan people.

Download TJC’s report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights