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International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget

PARIS, 8 March 2024 (VCHR) – As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8th March and Vietnam bids for a second term on the UN Human Rights Council, the voices of women calling for change in Vietnam are systematically and arbitrarily suppressed. The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) …
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Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
VCHR and FIDH expose grave violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Environmental and Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam spend International Human Rights Day behind bars
VCHR and FIDH submit joint human rights report to the UN for the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam

News

AFP : Dissident Vietnamese monk in tense stand-off with police

Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 22 (AFP) – One of Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissidents was prevented by police Monday from visiting the gravely ill patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church, triggering a tense roadside stand-off. The vehicle transporting Thich Quang Do, the deputy head of the Unified …

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AP : U.S. officials meet monks from banned Vietnam Buddhist church

U.S. diplomats met with leaders of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam over the weekend, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said Monday. It was the first diplomatic visit Vietnam’s government has allowed the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam’s deputy leader, Thich Quang Do, in more than a year, …

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PTTPGQT : Security Police prevent Thich Quang Do from visiting Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and forcibly escort him back to Ho Chi Minh City

This post is also available in: French Vietnamese

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PTTPGQT : Security Police prevent Thich Quang Do from visiting Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and forcibly escort him back to Ho Chi Minh City

This post is also available in: French Vietnamese

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PTTPGQT : Security Police prevent Thich Quang Do from visiting Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and forcibly escort him back to Ho Chi Minh City

This post is also available in: French Vietnamese

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Thich Quang Do meets top-level US State Department delegation and prepares to visit UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Binh Dinh

The Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) received a two-hour visit today (Sunday 21st November at 2.30pm) from a delegation of US diplomats at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City. This top-level delegation included Ms Elizabeth …

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VCHR Reports

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

Alternative Report to the UN Human Rights Committee on the Third Periodic Report of Vietnam on Implementation of the ICCPR (2019)

Open Letter: EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement contravenes the EU’s human rights obligations

FIDH & VCHR Joint submission for Vietnam’s third UPR

VCHR & FIDH Joint Submission for the adoption of the List of Issues for the United Nations Human Right Committee

Shrinking Spaces: Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam during the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review

VCHR: The Death Penalty in Vietnam 2016

VCHR – Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vietnam: State Management of Religions

UBCV, The Movement for Religious Freedom in Vietnam (2015)

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of the Rights of Women in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vietnam

Banned Civil Society Voices (2014)

FIDH & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights : Vietnam and Free trade Agreement negotiations: NGOs urge the EU to carry out a human rights impact assessment

Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars: Restrictions on Internet Freedom in Vietnam (FIDH & VCHR)

Arbitrary Detention In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Testimony by Vo Van Ai, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing on "Vietnam: Continuing Abuses of Human Rights and Religious Freedom", Washington D.C., 15 May 2012

Arbitrary Detention In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Testimony by VCHR President Võ Văn Ái, Washington DC, May 15, 2012)

VCHR : Violations of the Rights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

VCHR – Rule of Law or Rule by Law, Crime and Punishment in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Report)

FIDH & VCHR : “From “Vision” to Facts: Human Rights in Vietnam under its Chairmanship of ASEAN”

Political Stability vs Democratic Freedom ? Economic Crisis and Political Repression in Vietnam
Document of the VCHR for the Hearing on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam of the Sub-commission on Human Rights, European Parliament (Brussels, 25 August 2008)

Prominent International Organizations issue Mission Report on Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam

VCHR : The Socialist Republic of Vietnam :
Violations of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities in the Northern and Central Highlands

Videos

Message from the Most Venerable Thích Quảng Độ to the Conference “Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” (11 July 2018)

40,000 Buddhists demonstrate in Hue (24/05/1993)

Religious Freedom in Vietnam: Its importance for Regional and Global Security (Washington DC, 12 September 2016)

World Watch Monitor: Vietnam’s new Religion Law aims to repress, control

World Watch Monitor: Vietnam’s relationship with EU and US, and its impact on religious freedom

VCHR’s Oral Statement before the UN Human Rights Council (20 June 2014) (in French)

MEP Schaake speaks at IBIB Conference on violations of Internet freedom in Vietnam (Houston, Texas, 6 June 2013)

Ms. Marietje Schaake, MEP: Video message to the IXth UBCV Congress

Thich Quang Do – Forbidden Faith in Vietnam (Oslo Freedom Forum, 28 April 2010)

Vo Van Ai - Credit: Oslo Freedom Forum

Vo Van Ai – The Impact of Indifference (Oslo Freedom Forum, 20 May 2009)

Message from Very Venerable Thich Quang Do to the UN Commission on Human Rights