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 …
Read More »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, – …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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, …
Read More »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 …
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