To Members and Guests: Approximately one month ago, the FCCT accepted a booking from the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) for them to hold a press conference in the Clubhouse launching a new report, “From Rhetoric to Reality: …
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The Epoch Times – By Scott Johnson January 26, 2010 In Vietnam hundreds of monks undergo re-education to infiltrate overseas temples with the aim to destroy the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Vietnam has waged a brutal overt and covert war against its Buddhist population for decades. In 1981, they …
Read More »HANOI, 6 October 2009 (dpa) – Thich Quang Do, the dissident monk who heads the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), is calling for a Vietnamese boycott of Chinese goods, UBCV sources said Tuesday. The Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau, which handles press for the UBCV, said …
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Agence France Presse GENEVA, 24 sept 2009 (AFP) – Human rights campaigners on Thursday said Vietnam had rejected UN recommendations to improve rights and criticised a “climate of fear” which they said was stifling freedom of expression. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human …
Read More »* Exiles and rights activists accuse Vietnam of crackdowns * Report issued as Vietnam in dock at U.N. rights forum * Large demonstration to coincide with rare scrutiny GENEVA, May 8 (Reuters) – Vietnamese exiles backed by a major international human rights group accused Vietnam on Friday of …
Read More »* Exiles and rights activists accuse Vietnam of crackdowns * Vietnam defends record, admits individual shortcomings * Demonstration coincides with rare U.N. scrutiny (Updates with Vietnam presentation to U.N. Human Rights Council) GENEVA, May 8 (Reuters) – Vietnam acknowledged some human rights “wrongdoings” in its appearance before a …
Read More »Vietnam’s human-rights record will come under scrutiny tomorrow at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Hanoi is hoping the council, which includes Cuba and Saudi Arabia, will rub clean its murky record on human rights. Freedom-loving countries shouldn’t let this happen. Vietnam’s report to the Human Rights Council in preparation …
Read More »Agence France Presse HANOI, 2 April 2009 (AFP) – A dissident Buddhist monk has joined scientists and intellectuals in opposing a government plan to mine bauxite in Vietnam, according to a statement received from his overseas spokesman. Thich Quang Do, head of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of …
Read More »BANGKOK, 2 April 2009 (RFA) – A leading dissident Buddhist monk in Vietnam, Thich Quang Do, has joined scientists and a leading war hero in opposing plans to mine bauxite in Vietnam, citing concerns for the environment and indigenous people, his organization has said. Do, the head of …
Read More »GENEVA, 24 March 2009 (Reuters) – Vietnam on Tuesday rejected as “slanderous and distorted” allegations by exiled human rights groups that it stifles peaceful dissent and jails its critics. Vietnam’s ambassador, in a letter sent to the U.N. Human Rights Council, said that when addressing the Geneva forum …
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