WTN for December 2014

• Into a world led by Chinese characteristics: Tibetans at the World Parks Congress 2014 - Rukor
• China builds hydroelectric dam in Tibet, India fears flash floods - Times of India
• Tibetans inside Tibet ask UN envoy to scrutinize rights charges against Beijing - Radio Free Asia
• Canada-China ties worry Tibetan Prime Minister Sangay - Globe and Mail
• Tibetan government-in-exile has unique economic model - Montreal Gazette

• Official delegation from the Tibet Autonomous Region visits Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa - China Central Television (CCTV)
• 25th anniversary of Nobel Prize to the Dalai Lama marked in Canada’s Parliament by Chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet - House of Commons (Canada)
• UK Parliament to hold Tibet debate on International Human Rights Day - UK Tibet Society
• Tibetan political prisoner dies after serving 6 years of 15 years’ sentence - Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
• Life without a Dalai Lama? Disbelief at spiritual leader's suggestion - South China Morning Post

• EU-China Dialogue on Human Rights raises Tibet issue and individual case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche - European Union
• Statement of Peggy Nash MP on the silver jubilee of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Nobel Prize - House of Commons (Canada)
• Pope Francis skips meeting with Dalai Lama, not wanting to upset China - The Christian Times
• Elderly Tibetan is jailed for discouraging Shugden worship - Radio Free Asia
• Extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention and religious repression continue in restive Tibetan county - Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

• Pope Francis’s China problem - New York Review of Books
• Tibetan man self-immolates in Amchok - Phayul
• Dalai Lama says his role should cease after his death - Reuters
• Tibetan youth is killed by police during election clash in Golog - Radio Free Asia
• Tibetan woman dies in second self-immolation this week - Free Tibet UK

• Tibetan monk self-immolates calling for return of Dalai Lama - Radio Free Asia
• China’s minister for Tibet affairs under corruption investigation - Tibetan Review
• China outlines ethnic policies for 2015 and beyond - The Diplomat
• Chinese troops hold military drills in Tibet - Press Trust of India
• Police fire on unarmed Tibetan protesters in eastern Tibet - Aljazeera