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Vietnam Committee & FIDH : Parallel NGO Report by Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and the FIDH, submitted in advance of the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam

November 3, 2008 Resources 0

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 …

Wives of detained dissidents launch appeal for their husbands’ release

November 1, 2008 VCHR 0

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, …

Urgent Plea to the government of Vietnam asking for the safe return of our husbands

October 30, 2008 Resources 0

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 …

European Parliament : European Parliament resolution on the new EU- Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and human rights

October 22, 2008 Resources 0

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on Vietnam, – having regard to the 1995 Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, – having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by Vietnam in 1982, – …

European Parliament calls for concrete mechanisms on human rights and democracy in new EU-Vietnam Agreement

October 22, 2008 VCHR 0

STRASBOURG, 22 October 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) – In its plenary session in Strasbourg today, the European Parliament passed a “Resolution on the new EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and Human Rights”. Adopted by an overwhelming majority of 479 in favour with 21 against and 4 abstentions, the …

World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2008:
The Death Penalty in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

October 9, 2008 VCHR 0

PARIS, 9 October 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) – 664 people were executed in Asia in 2007, more than in any other region in the world. In Vietnam, 104 people received death sentences, including 14 women. Last year, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution calling on all countries …

UBCV leader Thich Quang Do supports Buddhist movement against discrimination in South Korea

October 4, 2008 IBIB 0

PARIS, 4 October 2008 (IBIB) – Prominent dissident and leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Thich Quang Do has sent a letter to Buddhist leaders in South Korea supporting their peaceful protests against anti-Buddhist intolerance. Buddhists in Korea have complained that the administration of President Lee Myung Bak, …

Letter of Thich Quang Do to Venerable Won Hak
(concerning Buddhist movement against discrimination in South Korea)

October 4, 2008 Resources 0

Most Venerable Won Hak, On behalf of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, I am writing to express the solidarity of Vietnamese Buddhists with the Buddhists of the Republic of Korea in the peaceful movement against religious discrimination. I firmly believe that religious tolerance is essential to ensure harmonious coexistence …

At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Global Civil Society Democracy Movement condemns repression of peaceful demonstrations in Vietnam

September 26, 2008 VCHR 0

NEW YORK, 26 September 2008 (IBIB) – Addressing Ministers of over 100 member-states of the United Nations Democracy Caucus meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York today (Friday 26th September), the Non-governmental International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies (ISC/CD) condemned the recent arrests and repression of …

50 years after PM Pham Van Dong recognizes Chinese claims to Spratly and Paracel Islands:
Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on Hanoi to reject “anti-Vietnamese” pact and defend territorial integrity

September 15, 2008 IBIB 0

PARIS, 15 September 2008 (IBIB) – On the 50th Anniversary of a diplomatic note by North Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong accepting China’s claims of sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands, the new leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), Patriarch Thich Quang Do has called …