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EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell should call for the immediate release of environmental rights defenders in his visit to Vietnam

Joint open letter from Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and FIDH, ahead of the visit of Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam. PARIS, 24 July 2024 (VCHR & FIDH) – From 29-31 July, Josep Borrell, High Representative for …
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Vietnam fails to address serious human rights concerns at its 4th Universal Periodic Review at the UN
International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget
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

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EU Ombudsman considers Commission’s refusal to conduct a human rights impact assessment in the context of trade agreements as case of maladministration

PARIS-BRUSSELS, 14 April 2015 – In her draft recommendation adopted on March 26, 2015, the EU Ombudsman found that “the Commission’s failure to carry out a specific human rights impact assessment in relation to Vietnam, constitutes maladministration.” She recommended that “the Commission should now carry out such an assessment without …

EPRID welcomes FoRB clauses in European Parliament’s 2013 Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World

BRUSSELS, March 13, 2015 (EPRID) – The European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID) welcomes the European Parliament’s inclusion of a section on freedom of religion or belief, for the third consecutive year, in its Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy, which was adopted yesterday. EPRID engaged with …

UN Religious Freedom Expert presents report to the Human Rights Council on country visit to Vietnam

GENEVA, March 11, 2015 (Vietnam Committee) – Speaking at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 10-11 March, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt presented his report on his mission to Vietnam from 21 – 31 July 2014. …

Deputy leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Most Venerable Thich Nhu Dat dies in Hue

PARIS, 27.2.2015 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau is deeply grieved to announce that Most Venerable Thich Nhu Dat, Deputy leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) and Head of the UBCV’s Executive Institute Viện Hóa Đạo, passed away at Long Quang Pagoda in Hue on Thursday …

Vietnam: Sustained EU pressure needed on human rights at upcoming dialogue

PARIS-BRUSSELS, 16 January 2015 (FIDH & VCHR) – The European Union (EU) must use upcoming talks with Vietnam to demand that Hanoi urgently address serious human rights violations, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. The two organizations made the call ahead of the …

Vietnam: Conviction of three human rights defenders upheld

BANGKOK-PARIS-GENEVA, December 12, 2014: The conviction of three human rights defenders on trumped-up charges is the latest act of the government’s relentless repression of independent voices, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint program of FIDH and OMCT) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) …