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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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Vietnam’s Human Rights Journal should be a forum for debate, not a propaganda tool for the Communist Party

PARIS, 16 July 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, an affiliate of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) welcomed Vietnam’s publication of the first issue of a monthly human rights magazine, but expressed concern that the journal is …

UBCV leader Thich Quang Do announces trip to Binh Dinh to attend Memorial Ceremony for late Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang

PARIS, 29 June 2010 (IBIB) – In a letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam’s leader Thich Quang Do announced that he will travel to Binh Dinh province to participate in a Memorial Ceremony for the late UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and …

Patriarch Thich Quang Do writes to the government protesting repression against the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam

PARIS, 15 June 2010 (IBIB) – The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has sent a letter to the Vietnamese leadership to “vigorously protest” systematic repression against the outlawed UBCV, in particular the recent banning of traditional Vesak celebrations (Birth of Buddha) …

UBCV Patriarch Thich Quang Do issues Vesak Message

PARIS, 28 May 2010 (IBIB) – The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has sent a Message to Vietnamese Buddhists around the world for the 2554th Vesak celebrations of the Birth of the Buddha. The Message was sent clandestinely from Thanh Minh …

Oslo Freedom Forum Screens Rare Interview with Imprisoned Monk for Vietnam Human Rights Day on Capitol Hill

Oslo Freedom Forum Screens Rare Interview with Imprisoned Monk for Vietnam Human Rights Day on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON, DC (May 11, 2010) – The Oslo Freedom Forum will present its recently-filmed interview with The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do at a congressional ceremony on Capitol Hill this afternoon. Thich Quang …

Buddhist monk Thich Khong Tanh is arrested in Saigon

PARIS, 30 April 2010 (IBIB) – The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has informed the International Buddhist Information Bureau that Venerable Thich Khong Tanh, UBCV Commissioner for Humanitarian and Social Affairs, was arrested by Security Police at the Thu Thiem ferry, Ward 2, Saigon at 6.30pm Vietnam time today. …