The aims of the Tibetan Women’s Association:

• To raise global awareness of the critical situation inside Tibet, and to exert international pressure for the improvement of human rights for Tibetans living in occupied Tibet.

• To promote the social, political, and economic equality of Tibetan women, in Tibet and in Tibetan exile communities.

• To address the drastic human rights abuses committed against Tibetan women in Tibet – including rape, physical violence, and the denial of fundamental reproductive, religious, and political freedoms – and to address other cases of gender-based discrimination in the Tibetan exile communities.

• To ensure Tibetan women have access to adequate educational information about health care, child care and family planning.

• To assist the needy in the Tibetan community through sponsorship programs that help to support economically disadvantaged families, single parents, children, nuns, the handicapped, the sick, and the
  elderly.

• To preserve and promote Tibetan culture, language, tradition, and the arts through community education, literacy and publications.

• To join hands with the women of the world to promote peace and justice for all.

We work hard to achieve these aims with the following key activities:

• Supporting women in Tibet by publicizing human rights abuses and seeking opportunities to support development inside Tibet.

• Actively working for women’s empowerment by running regular workshops across the exile community.

• Empowering and supporting women in the exile community through studies fellowships, vocational training school Stitches of Tibet and sponsorship programs.

• Raising awareness of the harmful policies affecting Tibet’s environment, as part of the Tibet Third Pole campaign group.

• Maintaining an international presence, to advocate for the rights of women in and outside of Tibet on a global stage.

• Rigorously campaigning for issues and injustice affecting the lives of women within the exile community and inside Tibet.

• Producing regular research and media in order to support international advocacy and campaigning work.

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Learn more at www.tibetanwomen.org