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Vietnam: EU must demand end to repression of civil society, respect of human rights pledges

BRUSSELS, PARIS, 5 April 2022 (FIDH & VCHR): The European Union (EU) must use the upcoming human rights dialogue to demand the Vietnamese government end repression of civil society and fulfill its pledges stemming from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human …

Violations of Internet Freedom in Vietnam denounced on the margins of the United Nations Human Rights Council

GENEVA, 13 September 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Violations of Internet freedom and harassments against bloggers and netizens were denounced at a Conference on the margins of the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on 11 September 2013. The event was organised by the International Federation of Human …

UBCV monk Thich Huyen Viet stages hunger strike to pray for Blogger Dieu Cay and call for freedom and democracy in Vietnam

PARIS, 24 July 2013 (IBIB) Reverend Thich Huyen Viet, Buddhist monk and member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) is staging a three-day hunger strike in Houston, Texas, from 25 – 27 July whilst Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang visits the United States and meets with President Obama. …

Freedom of Expression Online threatened by new Internet Decree in Vietnam

PARIS, 23 July 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is gravely concerned by the adoption of the “Decree on Management, Provision, Use of Internet Services and Information Content Online” (Decree 72/2013-ND-CP) which imposes new restrictions on freedom of expression online. The Decree, adopted on 15 …

Pro-democracy blogger Dieu Cay is on hunger strike

PARIS-GENEVA, 19 July 2013 (OBSERVATORY & VCHR) – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern for the health …

Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on President Obama to press Vietnamese leader on democracy for Vietnam

PARIS, 18.7.2013 (IBIB) – The Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Quang Do has written to the United States’ President Barack Obama, calling on him to raise issues of democracy and human rights in his coming meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on 25 …

Trade relations: Reluctant to assess human rights in Vietnam, the EU fails to respect its commitments

BRUSSELS, 3 July 2013 (FIDH & VCHR) – FIDH and VCHR wrote an open letter to the European Union on 30 April 2013 highlighting how prejudicial the absence of an assessment on human rights would be within the context of the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement currently under negotiation. In its …

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News

Violations of Internet Freedom in Vietnam denounced on the margins of the United Nations Human Rights Council

UBCV monk Thich Huyen Viet stages hunger strike to pray for Blogger Dieu Cay and call for freedom and democracy in Vietnam

Freedom of Expression Online threatened by new Internet Decree in Vietnam

Pro-democracy blogger Dieu Cay is on hunger strike

Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on President Obama to press Vietnamese leader on democracy for Vietnam

Trade relations: Reluctant to assess human rights in Vietnam, the EU fails to respect its commitments

VCHR Reports

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

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

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