Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
Before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women : Vietnam Committee denounces persisting gender discrimination and violations of women’s rights in Vietnam
NEW YORK, 15 January 2007 – Speaking before a panel of experts at the 37th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), at the United Nations in New York today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Vice-President of …
Read More »DPA : Vietnam denies banning Buddhist patriarch from hospital visit
HANOI, January 4, 2007 (dpa) – Vietnam on Thursday denied a report that provincial authorities have forbidden the ailing patriarch of a banned Buddhist sect from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City for a medical examination. The government dismissed as a “total fabrication” a claim that security police …
Read More »AFP : Vietnam denies Buddhist dissident’s hospital visit : supporters
Agence France Presse HANOI, Jan 4, 2007 (AFP) – Vietnamese police have prevented the 87-year-old leader of a banned Buddhist organisation from visiting his hospital for a medical checkup, a Paris-based pro-democracy group said on Thursday. Thich Huyen Quang, patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), was …
Read More »Security Police forbid UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang to travel to Saigon for hospital visit – Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire nominates Thich Quang Do for 2007 Nobel Peace prize
The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed by the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that Security Police in Binh Dinh province have prohibited UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for medical examinations at the Franco-Vietnamese hospital. In October 2006, the 87-year …
Read More »The Daily Telegraph : Vietnam dissident accuses Bush of betrayal
Ho Chi Minh City, 27 November 2006 – Vietnam’s leading dissident yesterday accused America of betrayal after Washington took the Communist state off a list of countries of concern over religious freedom. Thich Quang Do, 77, is deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. He spent more …
Read More »Ho Chi Minh City Police City prohibit UBCV monks from receiving foreigners until APEC leaders leave Vietnam – Suspected of wanting to meet US President George W. Bush, Buddhist Nun Thich Nu Dam Thoa is arrested in Hanoi
PARIS, 19 November 2006 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information from Venerable Thich Vien Dinh, Vice-President and Secretary General of “Vien Hoa Dao”, the Executive Institute of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, and Superior monk of the Giac Hoa Pagoda, one of …
Read More »APEC meeting in Hanoi, 12-19 November 2006 : Just Free Trade, no Free Speech : Hanoi dissidents are “off-limits” to foreigners during APEC meeting
PARIS, 15 November 2006 – As thousands of participants meet to discuss free trade and open markets at the APEC meeting in Hanoi, Security Police have received strict orders to prevent any free discussion between dissidents and foreign diplomats or media visiting the Vietnamese capital. Over the past week, Security …
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