Quê Me

Latest posts

Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong

The Observatory has been informed about the second conviction and prison sentence of imprisoned land rights defender Mr Trinh Ba Phuong. Mr Ba Phuong has campaigned against land grabbing and to highlight its impact on small-scale farmers across the country, along with his mother Ms Can Thi Theu and brother …
Read More »
Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Emmanuel Macron’s official visit to Vietnam: Civil society organisations call on the President to take action on human rights

News

Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) : Call for international pressure on China

Radio Telefís Éireann A leading Vietnamese dissident Buddhist monk has called on the international community to put pressure on China to end ‘repression’ in Tibet, following a week of deadly unrest. Thich Quang Do of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam said the Buddhists of Tibet are …

Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do sends Message of Solidarity to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet

PARIS, 16 March 2008 (IBIB) – In face of the Chinese government’s violent military crackdown on peaceful protests of Buddhists in Tibet, the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has sent a “Message of Solidarity from the Unified Buddhist Church …

Vietnam Committee condemns crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist monks

PARIS, 15 March 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns the Chinese government’s recent brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations of Buddhist monks, nuns and lay-followers in Tibet, and calls for an urgent UN inquiry into the violence. …

State Department official disregards grave religious freedom violations in testimony to key Senate Hearing on Vietnam

PARIS, 13th March 2008 (Vietnam Committee) – Only one day after the US State Department roundly condemned Vietnam’s human rights record in its 2007 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Christopher Hill gave a contradicting evaluation of Vietnam’s “expanded” …

Vietnam Committee welcomes US State Department’s “closer to reality” appraisal of Human Rights Practices in Vietnam

PARIS, 12th March 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The US State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in 2007, released on Tuesday in Washington D.C., condemned Vietnam’s “unsatisfactory” human rights record in a 52-page overview of the legal and extra-legal barriers to citizens’ enjoyment of human rights in Vietnam. Describing …

Hanoi seeks to impose a political funeral for Hoang Minh Chinh and prevent UBCV monks and pro-democracy activists from attending the event

PARIS, 13th February 2008 (Vietnam Committee on Human Rights) – According to reports from the family of Hoang Minh Chinh, who died last Thursday, Hanoi’s Institute of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy is seeking to take over the organisation of the late dissident’s funeral. The Institute, of which Hoang Minh Chinh was formerly …