JOIN US IN ACTION!

We are requesting your support for an inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee into the UK’s failed strategy on Tibet.

Please ask your MP to:

1. Sign Early Day Motion 345  tabled by Kate Hoey MP on 21 October 2009, titled Human Rights in China and Tibet.

(EDM Number 2133 was taken off after the Queen's Speech and now has been reinstated as EDM Number 345.)

2. Write to Mike Gapes MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and call for an inquiry.

You can also send your MP an action postcard (see below) however a personal letter always gets a better response rate from MPs. 

Read more about Free Tibet's call for a Parliamentary inquiry and what it would achieve.

See which MPs have signed the new EDM here.

Find your MP:
- from the website: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/commons
- or by calling the House of Commons Information Office on 020 7219 4272.

Free Tibet has produced action postcards you can send to your MP. If you are organizing Free Tibet events or have other friends who would support the call for an inquiry, please contact Free Tibet for action postcards.

Alternatively, you can print the postcard using the images below.

Click here for the text of the postcard

 The text of EDM 345 is as follows:

That this House notes the Foreign Affairs select committee's recent statement that there is little evidence that the Government's policy of constructive engagement is leading to any significant human rights improvements in Tibet and China; further notes that the change made in 2008 by the Government to view Tibet henceforth as part of China was made without parliamentary oversight and has failed to lead to the human rights gains in return that were predicted by the Foreign Secretary at the time; recognises that the Government's weakening commitment to protect human rights in Tibet in recent years has coincided with a dramatic worsening of the human rights situation in Tibet; calls on the Foreign Affairs select committee to conduct a formal inquiry into the effectiveness of strategies being employed by the Government within its overall policy towards China, to protect and promote the human rights of the Tibetan and Chinese people.