The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday February 22nd, 2023
Human Rights Rapporteurs Express Concern on Education of Tibetan Students by Rene Wadlow
Three United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs have recently highlighted the quality and methods of education of Tibetan students. Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on Minortiy Issues, and Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights, first expressed their concern in a private letter to the U.N. Mission of China in Geneva. This is the standard procedure of first trying to discuss an issue with the authorities of the State concerned. When the reply of the government is non-existent or superficial, then the Special Rapporteurs can “go public” either in their report to the Human Rights Council or with a press release as is the case with Tibetan education.
The 6 February 2023 U.N. Press Release quotes fully the statement sent to the Chinese Mission. The Special Rapporteurs highlighted the one million Tibetan school children sent far from home to be in residential boarding schools. The Special Rapporteurs are ” very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale programme intended to assimilate Tibetans into majority Han culture, contrary to international human rights standards…. This increase in the number of boarding Tibetan students is achieved by the closure of rural schools in areas which tend to be populated by Tibetans and their replacement by township or county-level schools which almost exclusively use Putonghua in teaching and communication.” Putonghua is the official name for what is usually called “Manderan Chinese.”
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“Frosted Window” #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Your perfume lingers,
We held each other
During the night,
We measured our
Heartbeats.”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #033 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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