Violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Tibetan Autonomous Areas of China. Alternative Report for the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Supplementary report to China’s 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The report evaluates the compliance of the government of China with the Convention on the Rights of the Child with respect to Tibetan children living in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in Tibetan autonomous areas of Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan and Gansu provinces. Part 1 of the report focuses the role of the Chinese state in the 10-year-long disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (recognised as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama) and his family; and Part II provides commentary on the overall situation of Tibetan children living in Tibet.