Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
While the EU recently elevated its relationship with Viet Nam to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, civic space within Viet Nam continues to shrink. This repression is no longer contained within Viet Nam’s borders. Recent high-level state visits between Thai and Vietnamese authorities have signaled a dangerous tightening of bilateral security …
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Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand
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Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue
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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong
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Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
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VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
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Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy stripped of immunity : a step backwards for Cambodian democracy
Forum Asia Democracy is alarmed to learn that Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy and two M.P.s from the Sam Rainsy Party, Chea Poch and Cheam Channy, have been stripped of their parliamentary immunity. The Cambodian National Assembly took the vote on 3 February 2005, after instructing foreign diplomats, ONGs and …
Read More »AFP : Vietnam rights record under the spotlight despite dissident releases
Agence France Presse HANOI, Feb 1 (AFP) – Vietnam came under renewed pressure over its rights record Tuesday despite announcing the release of a group of dissidents, with critics welcoming the move but saying far more needed to be done to shore up religious and political freedoms in …
Read More »Vietnam Committee welcomes amnesty of dissidents and urges Vietnam to release all long-term political and religious detainees
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights warmly welcomes Vietnam’s decision to release several prisoners of conscience in the coming days in a government amnesty for the Tet (Lunar New Year, 9th February 2005). The organization sincerely thanks the United States, the European Union, the European Parliament, the United Nations and …
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Thich Nhat Hanh seeks to meet UBCV dignitaries Thich Quang Do and Thich Tue Sy
PARIS, 26 January 2005 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed by monks from the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) of their distress regarding the brash methods employed by Thich Nhat Hanh and his followers to obtain a meeting with the UBCV Deputy leader, Very …
Read More »Buddhist monk Thich Vien Dinh writes to Thich Nhat Hanh
The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a copy of a letter written by Venerable Thich Vien Dinh to Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh who is currently visiting Vietnam. Thich Vien Dinh is Superior monk of both the Thap Thap Monastery in Binh Dinh province and the Giac …
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