WASHINGTON D.C. 12 July 2018 – VCHR – Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) organized a Conference on “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights: Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” on July 11, 2018. The Conference was hosted by …
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PARIS, 12 July 2018 (FIDH & VCHR) – UN member states must pressure the Vietnamese government to end its severe crackdown on dissent and make a genuine commitment to reforms ahead of Vietnam’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) …
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see: Last Message from Buddhist Patriarch Thích Quảng Độ on religious freedom, democracy and human rights
Read More »Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and the International Campaign for Tibet cordially invite you to the conference: “Freedom of Religion or Belief & Human Rights: Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at the US Commission on International …
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GENEVA, 27 June 2018 (VCHR) – Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council today on behalf of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and its partner Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme, VCHR President Võ Văn Ái denounced the violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations and the adoption of a …
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BRUSSELS, 26 June 2018 – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), member of the European Platform against Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID) today joins EPRID to launch their new #FoRBDefender movement on freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, calling on people everywhere to unite under the slogan, “Believe …
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PARIS, 15th June 2018 (IBIB) – The U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink visited Buddhist dissident Thích Quảng Độ, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) where the UBCV Patriarch is under house arrest. …
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PARIS, 8th June 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) welcomes the release of prominent human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài and his assistant Ms. Lê Thu Hà from prison in Hanoi. They were released late on Thursday evening (7th June) and put immediately on a …
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PARIS, 28 May 2018 (VCHR) –The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) mourns the passing of Alvin (“Al”) L. Jacobson, a dedicated human rights advocate and true friend of Vietnam. He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachussetts (USA) on May 21st 2018 at the age of 76, …
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