Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights

On the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War, Vo Van Ai calls on the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile to support a democratic process in Vietnam

April 30, 2005 VCHR 0

SANTIAGO, CHILE – Addressing the 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile from 28-30 April 2005, Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights and Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam, called on democratic governments around the world “to support a process …

AFP : Accent on economics as Vietnam fetes 30th anniversary of war’s end

April 30, 2005 Press Review 0

  Agence France Presse   HO CHI MINH CITY (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people marked the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War with a colourful commemoration that pushed aside communist ideology to focus on economic prosperity. The entire city centre was decked out with large, …

Vietnam Committee : Sr Ricardo Lagos Escobar, President of Chile, and Mr Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietanm Committee on Human Rights / Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam

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Vietnam Committee : Ms Penelope Faulkner, Vice-President of the Vietanm Committee on Human Rights / Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam

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Vietnam Committee : Mr Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietanm Committee on Human Rights / Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam

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Vietnam Committee : Sr Ignacio Walker, Minister of Foreign Relations of Chili, and Mr Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietanm Committee on Human Rights / Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam

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Security Police arrest Buddhist monk Thich Nguyen Vuong outside Thich Quang Do’s Monastery in Saigon

April 11, 2005 IBIB 0

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed that Security Police in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) arrested Buddhist monk Thich Nguyen Vuong, member of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) this morning as he left Thanh Minh Zen Monastery after visiting the UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang …

At the 61st Session of the UN Commission Human Rights : Vo Van Ai denounces Vietnam’s secret service GD2 and reveals a Communist Party instruction manual on religious repression

April 5, 2005 VCHR 0

PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, 5 April 2005 (VCHR) – Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Vice-President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) condemned the institutionalisation of State repression …

AFP : Detained Vietnamese dissident urges democracy in smuggled message

April 5, 2005 Press Review 0

  Agence France Presse   GENEVA, Apr 5, 2005 (AFP) – Leading Vietnamese dissident Thich Quang Do said in a message smuggled out of Vietnam Tuesday that the government could not hold back the peaceful struggle for democracy in the country. A transcript of the «secret» message from the Buddhist …

Reuters : Vietnam dissident monk makes rare public plea

April 5, 2005 Press Review 0

    GENEVA, Apr 5 (Reuters) A leader of a banned Vietnamese Buddhist group pleaded today for an end to religious and political persecution in his country in a rare public message smuggled to the U.N.’s top human rights body. In a taped recording made secretly at the Saigon monastery …