ICT guest blog by Dechen Tsering, President of the Tibetan Association of Northern California, on her involvement in the 2010 Tibet Lobby Day. On March 1st 60-70 Tibetans descended on DC from all parts of the United States to participate in the 2010 Tibet Lobby Day on March 1st and 2nd organized by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), in collaboration with the Tibetan Associations in the United States...

On Monday, March 1 as part of the 2010 Tibet Lobby Day activities, ICT and the Capital Area Tibetan Association hosted a reception for Lobby Day participants and friends of ICT. Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Executive Chairman of ICT’s Board of Directors, made remarks to the gathering, highlights of which are reproduced below. Tashi Delek. Let me wish you all a Happy New...

Last week, ICT put out a press release on recent Congressional action on legislation that funds a variety of Tibet programs. Further details about the content of these bills (the House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations bills) can be found here. (Final funding awaits passage of a reconciled version combining these two bills, likely in the fall.) Most of these are long-standing...

It seems appropriate that we use an occasion when so many people are compelled to think about Tibet to enter the blogosphere. I’m pleased to be doing the inaugural post, and you will be hearing from most of us in all our offices (Washington, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels) and in the field, as time goes by. The ICT blog will be unique because we’ll have a variety of Tibetan, American and European bloggers...