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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

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dpa : Vietnam uses espionage charges to suppress freedom, says rights group

Deutsch Presse-Agentur HANOI, April 2, 2003 (dpa) – Vietnam is using espionage charges as an excuse to arrest dissidents and suppress freedom of expression in the communist country, the president of a Paris-based human rights group told the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva Friday. Vo …

AFP : US diplomats denied access to religious groups in Vietnam

Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, April 6, 2003 (AFP) – US Embassy staff in Vietnam have been prevented from meeting with representatives of religious groups due to apparent police action, the State Department said. The diplomats were denied access particularly to Thich Thien Hanh from the Unified Buddhist Church …

AFP : UN refugee agency hopeful in talks with Vietnam over dissident

Agence France Presse GENEVA, April 2 (AFP) – The UN refugee agency said Friday it was holding talks with Vietnamese authorities about a jailed Buddhist dissident and was hopeful that it could secure his resettlement. Pham Van Tuong, 50, who has refugee status, reportedly disappeared in Cambodia until …

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UN granted permission to see Buddhist dissident in Vietnam

Agence France Presse HANOI, March 29 (AFP) – The United Nations in Vietnam said Monday it was to gain access to a Buddhist dissident jailed for undermining national security despite being granted refugee status, and could help him to leave the country. Vu Anh Son, of the UN’s …

AP : U.N. official: Dissident monk could be allowed to resettle outside Vietnam

A former Buddhist monk who spent 20 months in a Vietnamese jail after getting U.N. refugee status for religious persecution could be allowed to resettle outside Vietnam, a U.N. official said Monday. Vu Anh Son, Hanoi chief of mission for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said …

dpa : British official raises human rights concerns during Vietnam visit

HANOI, March 18, 2004 (dpa) – A British junior minister raised concerns over human rights and the use of the death penalty Thursday during a three-day visit to Vietnam. The kidnapping and forced repatriation of a United Nations-registered refugee from Cambodia to Vietnam was raised as a matter …