2003 ICT Annual Report - International Campaign for Tibet

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Tsering Jampa,Executive Director ofICT-Europe, addressesthe UN Human RightsCommission on April 3.Jampa spoke aboutthe last 10 years ofChinese repressionin Tibet.chinese outreachIn 2003, ICT expanded its outreach program to the Chinesecommunity by expanding our quarterly Chinese language journalLiaowang Xizang “Tibet Observer” to a bimonthly and by testinga mass email service to people in China and Tibet. We alsostrengthened our presence on the internet and helped theLaogai Research Foundation in publishing a Chinese translationof the biography of a Tibetan political prisoner. Our programaimed at providing Chinese speakers with greater access touncensored information about the Tibetan people and the situationin Tibet.ICT staff participated in a series of meetings in Washington,D.C., New York and Boston with Chinese scholars and intellectuals,including a meeting for a select group of Chinese with the DalaiLama, as part of our attempt to develop bonds of trust betweenTibetan and Chinese peoples.At a different level, ICT provided support to the Special Envoyof His Holiness the Dalai Lama in his efforts to establish contactwith the Chinese leadership to resolve the Tibetan issue.membershipICT membership remained strong in 2003 at about 55,000members in the United States. ICT-Europe’s membership grewto 28,500, and donors to ICT-Deutschland number 3,400. ICTmembers sent thousands of postcards, petitions and letters in2003, making their involvement critical to the effectivenessof ICT initiatives. ICT member donations continue to be thebedrock of ICT’s revenue.In 2003, ICT placed new emphasis on involving members inthe work and vision of the organization through a series of specialevents in Washington, D.C. and other cities where members,staff, and Board could get to know one another better and shareideas and a sense of mission.10
ict online -www.savetibet.orgIn 2003, ICT’s website www.savetibet.org averaged nearly 2,000visitors a day and 677,000 hits per month, up from 140,000in 2002. On average approximately 50,000 people visited www.savetibet.org website each month. ICT increased onlinemembership to nearly 35,000 and maintained regular web-basedcommunication with online members through bi-weekly E-MAILUPDATES (consisting of news, action items and other features)and ACTION ALERTS (fast-response notifications for urgentactions). Online members took some 30,000 actions on a widevariety of issues through our ONLINE ACTION CENTER. TheICT-Europe and German-language ICT-Deutschland sections ofwww.savetibet.org were expanded and two new sections werecreated: ICT CAMPAIGNS, for campaigns and action-relatedcontent, and ICT PROGRAMS, which highlights the Tibetanempowerment programs.ict in the newsIn 2003, ICT continued to raise the profile of Tibet and Tibetrelatedissues in U.S. and international media. ICT-generatedstories were featured in major U.S. print outlets such as TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times,The Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe, periodicals suchas Newsweek and Foreign Policy and international outlets fromThe Daily Telegraph to The Hindustan Times. ICT was quotedextensively by wire services such as the Associated Press (AP)and Agence France Presse (AFP) and covered by worldwide outletssuch as CNN International. In addition to Tibetan-languagecoverage by Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia (RFA) andVoice of Tibet, ICT stories were picked up by Chinese-languageoutlets including VOA, RFA, BBC, The World Journal, BeijingSpring, China Observer, Tibet Bulletin, and Chinese News Net.11
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