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Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand

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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Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue
Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong
Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body

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The EP Intergroup on FoRB & Religious Tolerance will launch its Annual Report on religious freedom in the world on 30th June 2016

VCHR Executive Secretary Võ Trần Nhật comments on the upcoming launch of the EP Intergroup on FoRB & Religious Tolerance’s Annual Report (30th June 2016) This post is also available in: French Vietnamese

European Parliament strongly condemns abuses of freedom of expression, assembly and religion in Vietnam

STRASBURG, 9 June 2016 (VCHR) – At its plenary session in Strasburg today, the 751-member European Parliament adopted an Urgent Resolution strongly condemning human rights violations in Vietnam, and the escalation of repression following the Communist Party’s XII Congress in January which brought a hard-line leadership to power in the …

In Vesak Message, UBCV leader Thich Quang Do calls on Buddhists to be catalysts for democratic change in Vietnam

PARIS, 6th June 2016 – (IBIB). The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has issued his annual Message on the occasion of the Vesak (Birth of Buddha). In his Message, sent from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon where he …

Prominent US Congress members urge President Obama to press for release of Buddhist dissident Thích Quảng Độ during Vietnam visit

PARIS, 20 May 2016 (VCHR) – Eight prominent members of the US Congress have written a letter to US President Barack Obama calling on him to press for the release of Buddhist dissident Thích Quảng Độ in his upcoming visit to Vietnam. President Obama is scheduled to arrive in …

Police prevent UBCV Deputy Thích Thanh Quang and Youth leader Lê Công Cầu from meeting Australian diplomats in Saigon

PARIS, 13 May 2016 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) strongly protests the unlawful activities of Police in Hue and Danang who prevented the Deputy leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thích Thanh Quang and UBCV Youth leader Lê Công Cầu from travelling to …

UBCV Patriarch Thích Quảng Độ calls on President Obama to speak out for human rights during visit to Vietnam

PARIS, 9 May 2016 (VCHR) – From the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Thích Quảng Độ has sent a letter to US President Barack Obama urging him to press Vietnam’s leaders on human rights when he …