{"id":5272,"date":"2022-05-03T06:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T06:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:06:29","slug":"sikyong-penpa-tsering-to-call-upon-canada-for-stronger-support-to-tibet-in-his-maiden-visit-to-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/sikyong-penpa-tsering-to-call-upon-canada-for-stronger-support-to-tibet-in-his-maiden-visit-to-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikyong Penpa Tsering to call upon Canada for stronger support to Tibet in his maiden visit to Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ottawa, May 3, 2022 \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;The democratically elected leader of the Tibetan people&nbsp;Sikyong\/President Penpa Tsering is leading a delegation to Ottawa this week with plans to advocate for Canada\u2019s support of human rights in Tibet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weeklong program in Ottawa starts with a reception by Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, followed by hearings on Tibet at the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. As part of reaching out to a broader group of Canadian civil societies and think tanks, Sikyong Penpa Tsering will speak at Canada\u2019s leading national public policy think-tank Macdonald Laurier Institute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit is happening around the 27<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary of the disappearance of the 11th&nbsp;Panchen Lama. Ven. Zeekyab Rinpoche &#8211; the abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery will join Sikyong Penpa Tsering to testify before the Senate\u2019s and the House of Commons committee on foreign affairs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Tibet Committee and Parliamentary Friends of Tibet are jointly organizing this week-long program in Ottawa.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, May 3, 2022 \u2013&nbsp;The democratically elected leader of the Tibetan people&nbsp;Sikyong\/President Penpa Tsering is leading a delegation to Ottawa this week with plans to advocate for Canada\u2019s support of human rights in Tibet.&nbsp; The weeklong program in Ottawa starts with a reception by Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, followed by hearings on Tibet at the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-in-tibet","category-news","category-resolving-sino-tibetan-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadatibet.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}