TIBETAN WOMEN'S UPRISING DAY After the uprising on March 10th 1959, an estimated 3,000 women met publicly in Lhasa, Tibet, to hold another demonstration. To commemorate this event we are holding these vigils. Many Tibetan women are forced to have abortions, which is not only a gross personal violation, but against their religious beliefs. Many are also forced into being sterilised. If a woman continues to full term with an 'unauthorised' pregnancy, fines of up to five year's income, loss of employment, and the denial of legal papers or schooling for the child are the types of penalty enforced. The following are some of the violations against nuns arrested for peaceful demonstrations: starvation rape, attacks by clogs, solitary confinement of up to 300 consecutive days, laceration of nipples, electric baton rape, charged electric wires wrapped around the breasts and body. We hope you will join us in sending our message loud and clear to the Chinese that such barbaric acts against women are intolerable human rights violations, which we condemn outright.