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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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On 36th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War
Vietnam must reform its Legal System says report on “Crime and Punishment in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”

JAKARTA, 30 April 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – In a report made public at the Conference on the Rule of law for human rights in the ASEAN region held by the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN (HRRCA) in Jakarta, Indonesia, today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of Quê Me: Action …

Open Letter on the conviction of Cu Huy Ha Vu (The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights)

PARIS, 8 April 2011 (VCHR) – In an Open Letter, the FIDH, OMCT and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights calls for immediate and unconditional release of Cu Huy Ha Vu: OPEN LETTER to HE Nguyen Minh Triet President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam HE Nguyen Tan Dung …

Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls for the immediate release of human rights advocate Cu Huy Ha Vu

PARIS, 6 April 2011 (IBIB) – Prominent dissident Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), sent the following statement to the International Buddhist Information Bureau today from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon, where he is under effective house arrest. The UBCV leader …

UN expert’s report on minorities confirms the huge gap between human rights rhetoric and reality in Viet Nam

PARIS, 17 March 2011 (FIDH & VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), regret that Viet Nam has failed to cooperate in good faith with the United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues, Ms. Gay McDougall, …

VIETNAM: Deadly attack against a journalist

GENEVA-PARIS, February 3, 2011. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights & Quê Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam, condemn the murder …

IPS : Communist Party Steps on Already Stifled Newspapers

BANGKOK, Jan 27, 2011 (IPS) – A week after Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party ended its pivotal congress of the country’s political elite, there is little evidence in the state-controlled media of a possible return to the openness that once saw high-profile corruption scandals exposed in print here. “This is the …