EU4Tibet is a joint initiative led by the Office of Tibet in Brussels and the International Campaign for Tibet Europe, with the support of Tibet Support Groups across Europe. It serves as a unified platform to promote Tibetan advocacy and advance the Tibetan cause within the institutions of the European Union.

Fast Facts about Tibet

Why support Tibet

From human rights to the environment and democracy, Tibet is at the heart of the most pressing issues facing the world and Europe.

Democracy
While Tibetans have embraced democracy in exile under the guidance of the Dalai Lama, the Chinese government is the world’s leading advocate of autocratic rule, threatening the survival of democracy around the globe. If you want to promote democracy in Asia and worldwide, you should support Tibet!
Culture & Religious Freedom
Tibetan Buddhism and its rich cultural heritage are under threat from China's assimilationist policies. Tibetans risk arrest for possessing images of the Dalai Lama, and China aims to control the selection of his successor, violating religious freedom. Preserving Tibet means safeguarding both its unique culture, rooted in Tibetan Buddhism, language, and ancient traditions, and the right of Buddhists worldwide to choose their spiritual leaders freely. If you care about religious freedom and want to contribute to preserving an ancient and unique culture, you should support Tibet!
Global Security
Located at the heart of the China-India border conflict, known as the “water tower” of Asia supplying freshwater to 2 billion people downstream and storing valuable mineral resources such as lithium or uranium, Tibet is a strategic hotspot that has become the site of growing threats to global security under Chinese rule. If you care about peace and security in Asia and the world, you should support Tibet!
Environment & Climate
Home to a rich and endangered wildlife and the biggest repository of fresh water outside the North and South Poles, Tibet's environment is of strategical importance to the world. But today, China’s unchecked development policies on the plateau are contributing to the degradation of this fragile eco-system, with devastating implications for Tibetans and the planet. Tibet is currently warming 3x faster than the global average. If you care about climate change and environmental preservation, you should support Tibet!
Human Rights
While it has become a silent crisis, the human rights situation in Tibet today remains deeply alarming. Tibet is repeatedly rated as one of the least free territories on earth by human rights indexes and Tibetans face arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearances and torture simply for exercising their fundamental rights. If you care about human rights and freedoms for all, you should support Tibet! 

Tibet in numbers

5000+
Tibetan political prisoners in the last 28 years according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy
157
Tibetan self-immolations (known)
150k
Tibetans in exile
3
UN Resolutions on Tibet (1959, 1961 & 1965)
21
UN Member States who raised Tibet at China's UN Universal Periodic Review in 2024

EU4TIBET is a campaign led jointly by the Tibet Interest Group of the European Parliament, the International Campaign for Tibet and the Office of Tibet Brussels, with the significant support of the International Tibet Network, Tibet Support Groups and Tibetan Communities in Europe.

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