There were many excellent presentations at the 5th World Con...

(Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

Several officials in China’s Tibet autonomous region have been punished after being held responsible for a controversial fireworks show at the foot of the Himalayas, an ecologically fragile region. Outdoor apparel brand Arc’teryx worked with Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang...

The village of Martoli, in Uttarakhan’s Johar Valley, was left in ruins after conflict in the 60s

People return to Himalayan villages each summer, despite their decline after the 1962 India-China border closure.

The maps also omitted "important islands", the source of competing claims between Beijing and its neighbours.

Dozens of dilapidated stone buildings are what is left of the once-thriving border village of Martoli, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Nestled in Johar Valley and surrounded by Himalayan peaks — the most notable being Nanda Devi,...

(New York) – Chinese authorities on October 10-11, 2025, arrested nearly 30 pastors, preachers, and church members of the unofficial Zion Protestant Church in seven cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, Human Rights Watch said today.

Construction is set to begin next month on a monumental railway linking Hotan in Xinjiang with Lhasa in Tibet – one of China’s most ambitious infrastructure projects to date. The 1,980km (1,230 miles) line has been dubbed one of...

Unpredictable, intense and longer monsoons are encroaching into autumn, turning it into a deadly season.

From Himalayan hamlets to Amazonian tribes, the increasingly rare tradition is tied to the enduring human problems of scarcity, survival and solidarity. Namita Singh writes

Between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with which India shares a contested land border, India and its civil society seem to have moved much closer to the former, notwithstanding the ...

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UN raises concerns over the torture of Gonpo Tsering, and asks China to account for imprisonment and maltreatment of teenage protester Namkyi. Source

More than 1,000 people were stuck in mountain hiking areas for days, sparking extensive rescue efforts by local authorities and villagersThe weather wasn’t great. A bit drizzly and cold. But about 1,000 people steeled themselves on Mount Everest’s eastern...

China’s Derung ethnic minority uses a single cup of tea to convey acceptance or rejection when it comes to a proposal of marriage. This unique ritual takes place during the “Saying the Marriage” custom, or Shuohun in Chinese. It...

Special rapporteurs have raised serious concerns about increasing transnational repression against Tibetans, and call for a full investigation. Source

On October 13, a court outside Paris will put on trial Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and activist, and the president of the European Uyghur Institute, for the criminal offense of “degradation of property belonging to others.”

In recent weeks the Trump Administration has been demanding ...

For Immediate Release7 October 2025 [Geneva/ London] A group of UN human rights experts have issued two strong joint communications to both Vietnam and China [1] concerning the suspicious death, subsequent cremation and obstruction of justice in the case of the revered senior...

As China pursues clean energy, Tibet has emerged as a site for extractive mining and an unsustainable spree of dam building. 

Mass search-and-rescue mission involved local guides, villagers, and officials

Hundreds of trekkers who were stranded on the eastern slope of Mount Everest after heavy snowfall have been evacuated, according to the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. On Tuesday night, CCTV said 580 trekkers and more than 300 local guides...

Nearly 900 hikers, guides and staff trapped by a fierce snowstorm on Mount Everest’s Chinese side have reached safety, officials said, as severe weather hit several parts of western China over the weekend.

Those rescued included guides, yak herders and trekkers, who were trapped in a heavy snowstorm that began on Friday.