Besøget er arrangeret i samarbejde med Studerende for et Frit Tibet, Det Tibetanske Samfund i Danmark og Office of Tibet i London, der er Tibets uofficielle ambassade for Nordeuropa, skriver Anders Højmark Andersen, formand for Støttekomiteen, i en pressemeddelelse.
Under sit ophold i Danmark skal præsidenten for “Central Tibetan Administration i Indien” møde organisationer, politikere og de omkring 80 danske tibetanere.
Sangay er på en rundrejse til de skandinaviske lande og Storbritannien for at knytte kontakter og tale Tibets sag. Han har tidligere besøgt Danmark i 2011 og 2014.
Tibet har været besat af kinesiske styrker siden 1950. Se meget mere om det omstridte og kæmpemæssige område i Himalaya på
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
Offentligt foredrag om dyster baggrund
Amnesty International, Støttekomiteen for Tibet og Studerende for et Frit Tibet inviterer fredag den 10. november kl. 16.30-18.00 til foredrag og debat med præsident Lobsang Sangay i Vartov, der ligger bag Københavns Rådhus.
Baggrunden for arrangementet er, at Kinas præsident Xi Jinping har strammet grebet om magten og netop er blevet genvalgt for en ny femårig periode. Se også
https://globalnyt.dk/content/ngoer-kinas-roede-diktator-retter-haarde-slag-mod-tibet
Hvilken betydning får det for Tibet og tibetanerne, hvis borgerrettigheder, kultur, religion og sprog har været undertrykt i årtier? Og for vore muligheder for at påvirke Kina?
Amnestys generalsekretær Trine Christensen fortæller desuden om Amnestys arbejde for menneskerettighederne i Tibet og Kina, og der kan stilles spørgsmål.
Arrangementet er gratis, men vi tager imod donationer på dagen. Det foregår på engelsk og tilmelding er nødvendig på amnesty.dk/tibet senest dagen før.
Se https://amnesty.dk/stoet/stoet_tibet og https://www.facebook.com/events/2017401475197517
Kort levnedsbeskrivelse af dr. Sangay
Dr Lobsang Sangay was born and grew up in a Tibetan settlement near Darjeeling, where he attended the Central School for Tibetans. He completed his B.A. (Honors) and LLB degrees from Delhi University. In 1992, he was elected as the youngest executive member of the Tibetan Youth Congress.
In 1996, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained a Master’s Degree and in 2004, Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard Law School and his dissertation, Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet’s Government-in-exile was awarded the Yong K. Kim’ 95 Prize. In 2005, he was appointed as a research fellow and promoted to senior fellow until early 2011.
Dr Sangay is an expert on International Human Rights Law, Democratic Constitutionalism, and Conflict Resolution. He has spoken in hundreds of seminars around the world.
He organised seven major conferences among Chinese, Tibetan, Indian and Western scholars including two unprecedented meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars in 2003 and 2009 at Harvard University.
In 2007, he was selected as one of the twenty-four “Young Leaders of Asia” by the Asia Society and a delegate to the World Justice Forum in Vienna, Austria, where top legal experts and judges from around the world congregated.
Since 2011, Dr Sangay has served as the Sikyong or the political leader of the Tibetan people.
Academic publications:
Tibet: Exiles’ Journey, Journal of Democracy – Volume 14, Number 3, July 2003, pp. 119–130
Lobsang Sangay, China in Tibet: Forty Years of Liberation or Occupation?, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Volume III, No. 3, 1999.
Human rights and Buddhism: cultural relativism, individualism & universalism, Thesis (LL. M.), Harvard Law School, 1996, OCLC 43348085
Democracy in distress: is exile polity a remedy? : a case study of Tibet’s government in exile, Thesis (S.J.D.), Harvard Law School, 2004, OCLC 62578261
A constitutional analysis of the secularization of the Tibetan diaspora : the role of the Dalai Lama, in Theology and the soul of the liberal state, ed. Leonard V Kaplan; Charles Lloyd Cohen, Lanham : Lexington Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7391-2617-2
