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Observatory on Human Rights Defenders launches Urgent Appeal on the arbitrary sentencing of environmental rights activists Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương

PARIS, 18 August 2022 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply shocked by the appeal trials of environmental rights defenders Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương in Hanoi on 11 August 2022. The High People’s Court upheld the five-year prison sentence against …

European Parliament castigates Vietnam for systematic violations of human rights and detention of political prisoners

PARIS, 15th November 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) welcomes the resolution adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg today on “Vietnam, notably the situation of political prisoners”. The resolution was tabled jointly by six major political parties from across the political spectrum [i]. The …

UBCV Patriarch Thích Quảng Độ is expelled from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon

PARIS, 8 October (VCHR – IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau informs the international community with deep concern that Buddhist dissident and Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thích Quảng Độ boarded a train for the northen province of Thái Bình at 9:00am on …

Võ Văn Ái speaks before the UN Human Rights Council on 18 September 2018

VCHR and AEDH accuse Vietnam of grave human rights violations and disinformation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

GENEVA, 18 September 2018 (VCHR) – Speaking on behalf of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme (AEDH) at the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva from 10–28 September, VCHR President Võ Văn Ái denounced …

Vietnam: Government report for Universal Periodic Review suppresses grave human rights violations

PARIS, 4 September 2018 (VCHR & FIDH) – The draft report prepared by the Vietnamese government for the country’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) suppresses grave human rights violations and deliberately misinforms the international community, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. The …

360 young Buddhists escape Police repression to attend Summer Camp in Hue

PARIS, 12 August 2018 (VCHR – IBIB) – Police and local authorities in Hue harassed, intimidated and intercepted members of the Buddhist Youth Movement (BYM – Gia Đình Phật tử Việt Nam) as they organized the movement’s annual Summer Camp in Huế. This new crackdown on the BYM raises …

Conference on “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights: Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” (Washington D.C. 11th July 2018)

WASHINGTON D.C. 12 July 2018 – VCHR – Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) organized a Conference on “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights: Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” on July 11, 2018. The Conference was hosted by …

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Observatory on Human Rights Defenders launches Urgent Appeal on the arbitrary sentencing of environmental rights activists Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

Vietnam: Sentencing and arbitrary detention of environmental rights defender Nguy Thi Khanh

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

Prominent civil society activist Mai Phan Lợi condemned to four years in prison in Vietnam

News

European Parliament castigates Vietnam for systematic violations of human rights and detention of political prisoners

UBCV Patriarch Thích Quảng Độ is expelled from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon

VCHR and AEDH accuse Vietnam of grave human rights violations and disinformation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

Vietnam: Government report for Universal Periodic Review suppresses grave human rights violations

360 young Buddhists escape Police repression to attend Summer Camp in Hue

Conference on “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights: Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” (Washington D.C. 11th July 2018)

VCHR Reports

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

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)

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