PARIS, 16 December 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau received a report today from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on a visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Hanoi, Ms. Virginia E. Palmer to Very Venerable Thich Thien Hanh, Secretary …
Read More »PARIS, ngày 16.12.2008 (PTTPGQT) – Hôm nay Viện Hóa Đạo vừa chuyển đến Phòng Thông tin Phật giáo Quốc tế để phổ biến bản Tường trình về cuộc gặp gỡ tại chùa Báo Quốc, Huế, giữa Bà Phó Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ, Hòa thượng Thích Thiện Hạnh và Thượng tọa …
Read More »PARIS, 16 December 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau received a report today from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on a visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Hanoi, Ms. Virginia E. Palmer to Very Venerable Thich Thien Hanh, Secretary …
Read More »PARIS, ngày 6.12.2008 (PTTPGQT) – Chính sách tôn giáo hiện nay của nhà cầm quyền cộng sản là chính sách gì ? Nâng đỡ tôn giáo ? Tôn trọng tự do tôn giáo ? Đàn áp tôn giáo ? Tiêu diệt tôn giáo ? Tôn giáo là thuốc phiện ? Tôn giáo sống bình đẳng với …
Read More »PARIS, 4 December 2008 (International Buddhist Information Bureau) – Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Ban, 73, Superior monk at the Ba La Mat pagoda and head of the local representative board of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in the southern province of Dong Nai has been beaten and his …
Read More »PARIS, 4 décembre 2008 (BIIB) – Le moine bouddhiste Thich Nhat Ban (73 ans) a été victime d’une agression où il a été battu, et sa pagode a été vandalisée du fait de sa fidélité à l’Eglise Bouddhique Unifiée du Vietnam (EBUV, Eglise historique, indépendante), qui est interdite de fait …
Read More »PARIS, 18 November 2008 (IBIB) – Leading monks from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) gathered at the Giac Hoa Pagoda in Saigon on 15 November 2008 for a meeting of the UBCV Supreme Bi-cameral Council (Institute of the Sangha and Institute for the Dissemination of the Dharma Vien …
Read More »EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Despite Vietnam’s accession to core human rights treaties and its adoption of extensive new legislation, serious gaps remain between international norms and Vietnamese laws and practices. Vietnam continues to adopt laws that restrict the exercise of human rights and imprisons peaceful critics under vague “national security” provisions in …
Read More »PARIS, 1st November 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) – The wives of five pro-democracy activists in Vietnam whose husbands were arrested in September 2008 have written to the Vietnamese leadership calling for their release and “safe return” to their families. In a letter dated 30.10.2008, Mrs Nguyen Thi Nga, …
Read More »Vietnam, October 30, 2008 To: – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam – Vietnam Chief of Police, Le Hong Anh – Vietnam Chief of Police, Bureau of Investigation, Tran Van Thanh – Representatives of the European Union – The United States House of Representatives – The various international Human Rights organizations …
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