Tibet Champions are MPs who have already worked hard and taken action to promote human rights in Tibet in Parliament.
They have asked timely and topical Parliamentary Questions (PQs) on Tibet, made statements, and have signed Early Day Motions (EDMs) and/or tabled them calling for respect for human rights in Tibet.
If one of them is your MP, please thank them for working actively on Tibet and human rights. Click here to see a full list of Tibet Champions.
Norman Baker MP (Lib Dem) for Lewes:
“We need more MPs in parliament who are willing to challenge the next government to take a far more robust line with China... The level of human rights abuse, and cultural and religious intolerance and destruction visited upon the Tibetans by the Chinese has been enormous and unrelenting. Yet the world has by and large looked away. Yet an abuse of human rights anywhere is an abuse of human rights everywhere. The Tibetan cause is our cause."
Sympathetic MPs
These MPs have shown a significant degree of support for Tibet by signing Early Day Motions (EDMs) or making other statements of support, but have not to date taken any stronger action such as tabling questions in parliament.
If one of them is your MP, please thank them for showing support for Tibet in the past and say that you would like to see them taking greater action on Tibet in parliament by tabling Early Day Motions and Parliamentary Questions. Click here to see the full list.
Kate Hoey MP (Labour) for Vauxhall
“I have worked hard in parliament to push the UK government into adopting a more effective policy on human rights in Tibet and China. We need more MPs to be doing the same after the next general election.”
The Pledge
Free Tibet ran a campaign to have candidates pledge to support human rights during the 2010 General Election. At the urging of their constituents and Free Tibet supporters, more than 200 candidates pledged:
“If elected, I pledge to promote human rights in Tibet and China in my capacity as a Parliamentarian.”
Free Tibet is delighted that 36 candidates who took the pledge have been elected. With this base of supporters working alongside our champions and sympathetic MPs, we have an opportunity to make human rights in Tibet and China a priority for the new government.
Click here to read about what the new government has been doing about human rights in Tibet and China. Click here to read Free Tibet's policy recommendations for the new government.
Tibet champions
These MPs have shown a significant degree of support for Tibet by signing Early Day Motions (EDMs) or making other statements of support, but have not to date taken any stronger action such as tabling questions in parliament.
