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The EU should raise serious human rights concerns with Vietnamese Premier Tô Lâm during visit to Brussels

PARIS, 19 October 2026 (VCHR) – Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) joined with 12 international human rights organisations in urging the European Union to raise serious human rights concerns with Vietnamese President and Secretary-general of the Communist Party Tô Lâm during his visit to Brussels on 22 October. In …
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AFP – Vietnam religious minorities face persecution says activist

GENEVA, 20 February 2012 (AFP) – Authorities in Vietnam deliberately persecute and discriminate against religious minorities, a Vietnamese human rights campaigner told the UN on Monday. “The indigenous Montagnards and the Hmongs are among the ethnic groups who have borne the brunt of the Vietnamese governments discriminatory policies,” Vo Van …

Reuters: Detained Vietnam monk supports Tibetans after self-immolations

HANOI, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter of support to the Dalai Lama after a series of self-immolations by Tibetans, saying China’s crackdown on Tibetan areas was a challenge to all humanity, a Buddhist group said on Thursday. Activist monk Thich Quang Do invoked …

ABC Radio: Detained Vietnamese monk supports Tibetan struggle

ABC Radio – 16 February 2012 – Vietnam’s highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter to the Dalai Lama saying China’s crackdown on Tibetan areas is a challenge to all humanity. The France-based International Buddhist Information Bureau says activist monk Thich Quang Do who is under house arrest at a …

Vietnam must free prominent Blogger Dieu Cay, detained incommunicado and feared to have disappeared

PARIS, 13 February 2012 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is deeply concerned about the physical integrity of prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai (alias Dieu Cay), who has been detained incommunicado for the past 16 months on charges of “propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam”. His …

Buddhist dissident Thich Quang Do is nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

PARIS, 9 February 2012 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is informed that the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has been nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The deadline for nominations expired on 1st February 2012, and the …

Vietnam – EU: Release of rights and pro-democracy activists litmus test for human rights dialogue

PARIS-GENEVA-BANGKOK, January 10, 2012 (VCHR & OBSERVATORY) – The first full-fledged human rights dialogue of the European Union with Vietnam needs to be accompanied with the release of all human rights defenders currently imprisoned, in detention, or under house arrest, said the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the …