UN rights expert sees Paris museums’ censoring of ‘Tibet’ as violation of cultural rights, self-determination

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(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’25) – The move by two well-known museums in Paris last year to censor the name ‘Tibet’ by replacing it with terms preferred by or agreeable to China, was criticized earlier this year by the UN expert in the field of cultural rights, it has been revealed at the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sep 29.

This referred to the fact that the Musée du Quai Branly and the Musée Guimet had replaced the name ‘Tibet’ with ‘Xizang Autonomous Region’ and ‘Himalayan World,’ respectively, sparking accusations of historical distortion and cultural erasure.

The museums’ moves bore significan...

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