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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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UBCV Spokesman Vo Van Ai welcomes new report by US Commission on International Religious Freedom on abuses of religious freedom in Vietnam

Paris, 1st September 2008 (International Buddhist Information Bureau) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, Director of the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) and International Spokesman of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), warmly welcomed the “Vietnam Policy Focus” issued by the US International Commission on International Religious Freedom. This …

Thich Quang Do is appointed new leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam

HOUSTON, 17th August 2008 (IBIB) – At a ceremony marking the 49th day of the death of Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam held in Houston, Texas today, leaders of the Overseas UBCV made public the late Patriarch’s last will and testament in which …

AFP : Vietnam dissident Buddhist church appoints new leader

HANOI, 17 Aug 2008 (AFP) – Dissident monk Thich Quang Do became the new leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Sunday, pledging to keep up the peaceful struggle for religious and political freedom. Do, the former deputy leader, was named supreme patriarch at a ceremony held …

AFP : Thich Quang Do, Vietnam’s Buddhist voice for democracy

Agence France Presse HANOI, 17 Aug 2008 (AFP) – Dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, who Sunday became head of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has spent decades under “pagoda arrest” for his pursuit of justice. Now aged 79 and based at the Thanh Minh Zen monastery …