UN criticises Chinese language policy in Tibet and Eastern Turkestan</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="UN criticises Chinese language policy in Tibet and Eastern Turkestan"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="UN,criticises,Chinese,language,policy,in,Tibet,and,Eastern,Turkestan"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">19-05-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>UN criticises Chinese language policy in Tibet and Eastern Turkestan</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_nfWb2oZWADCx8nroPjTN_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Hague, Netherlands (UNPO): The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has expressed concern over the human rights situation in Tibet and Eastern Turkestan after considering the initial report of the People’s Republic of China on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Its report focused in particular on “the right to the free exercise of religion as a right to take part in cultural life, and the use and teaching of minority languages, history and culture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)". <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=02&par=2517 " target="blank">www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=02&par=2517 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show