Human Rights Action Plan - Tibet

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Outcome Indicators • All Tibetan artists, writers, musicians and community leaders arrested for the promotion of cultural rights are released and further harassment linked to cultural promotion is ceased.

• The elimination of incentives for Han Chinese from eastern China to work in Tibet. • New culturally sensitive policies to support nomads in their lifestyle developed. • The policy to remove Tibetan nomads and rural residents from the grasslands and their homes is suspended. • Evidence is seen of new and culturally sensitive policies implemented that support the traditional Tibetan nomads and farmers in their lifestyles, including effective poverty alleviation measures. These could include:

• Establishment of self-governing pasture user groups run by and including local Tibetans. • Creation of urban markets for Tibetan dairy products. • Funding provided for Tibetan nomad communities to rehabilitate degraded grassland areas. • Training in and provision of veterinary services, pest management, and other linked services as a poverty alleviation • and income generation program. • Decentralisation of health care and education to Tibetan nomadic communities (via mobile schools and clinics), and • provision of qualified teachers and health care staff. • Access to appropriate solar and wind energy is provided to Tibetan nomadic and rural communities. • Businesses involved in the extractive industries are required to consult with the local community. • Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights is allowed to visit Tibet before March 2015 (mid-term of China’s 2nd • UPR). • Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues is allowed to visit Tibet before March 2015 (mid-term of China’s 2nd UPR).

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