Geneva: The Parliamentary Group for Tibet (PGT) in the Swiss Parliament has issued a strong protest against China’s new “Law on Ethnic Unity and Progress,” which was enacted in March 2026 and will take effect on 1 July 2026. The group argues the law entrenches a Han-centred national identity at the expense of Tibetan language, religion, and culture, framing it not as a unifying measure but as a vehicle for forced assimilation and the systematic erosion of Tibetan identity.
The PGT warned that expanded state control over education and public life under the law will worsen conditions for at least one million Tibetan children already separated from their families through China’s boar...





