{"id":13110,"date":"2025-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/do-no-harm-when-visiting-ict-advises-official-delegations-to-tibet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:00:00","slug":"do-no-harm-when-visiting-ict-advises-official-delegations-to-tibet","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/do-no-harm-when-visiting-ict-advises-official-delegations-to-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo-No Harm when visiting\u201d \u2013 ICT advises official delegations to Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) continues to call on the Chinese government to provide unfettered access to Tibet for diplomats, UN experts, parliamentarians, independent media, and civil society. When granted access to Tibet by the Chinese government, official delegations should apply extreme caution and avoid amplifying Chinese state propaganda on Tibet, ICT said today, as the organization released \u201cGuidelines for official visits to Tibet<\/a>\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document provides essential criteria that official delegations should observe when visiting Tibetan areas. Such visits, in preparation, implementation, and assessment, should follow a \u201cDo-No-Harm-Principle\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe international community and media have a responsibility to investigate and provide accurate assessments of the conditions Tibetan people face inside Tibet. Responsibility includes understanding the reality of how their visit and reporting can impact Tibetans after they leave\u201d said ICT President Tencho Gyatso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guidelines serve two necessary principles. First, an antidote to the Chinese government\u2019s orchestration of visits to serve their propaganda on Tibet, which misleads the international community. Gyatso added, \u201cUnless challenged by facts, the PRC will continue its wanton persecution of peaceful dissent. Any inaccurate assessment of the complex architecture of repression will be manipulated to dismiss all human rights concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guidelines also caution that China routinely depicts Tibet as \u201cstable\u201d and Tibetans as \u201chappy\u201d under Chinese authoritarian rule. Documenting and reporting these claims as disinformation is of critical importance, another reason that access to Tibet must be unfettered and unfiltered by propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of paramount importance as well is that visits and subsequent reporting abide by the principle of \u2018Do-No-Harm\u2019. Delegations visiting Tibet must not amplify Chinese state propaganda, which actively works to hide the truth in Tibet from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICT has continuously urged for unfettered access to Tibet and has welcomed the US Congress \u201cReciprocal Access to Tibet Act (RATA)\u201d in 2018, which was reauthorized in 2024<\/a>. During the 2024 \u201cUniversal Periodic Review\u201d at the United Nations Human Rights Council, several nations called on the Chinese government<\/a> to grant open, independent and unrestricted access to Tibet, including through the UN OHCHR and special rapporteurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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