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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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Interview with Stan Jolly, Co-ordinator of Amnesty International Group 65, Toronto, Canada on the Campaign for the release of Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang (Broadcast on Radio Free Asia, 31 January 2008)

Intro: Y Lan Penelope Faulkner: Amnesty International is a renowned international organisation devoted to promoting internationally recognised human rights and campaigning for the release of prisoners of conscience. It was founded in 1961 by three lawyers, Peter Berenson (UK), Sean McBride (Ireland) and Eric Baker (UK) firstly under the name …

From house arrest, UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang issues New Year Message to Amnesty International and Vietnamese at home and abroad

PARIS, 5th February 2008 (IBIB) – From house arrest at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh province, the Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang has sent an audio Message to the international community and Vietnamese around the world. The Message was …

Venerable Thich Quang Do is nominated for 2008 Nobel Peace prize by 137 MPs from Europe, the USA and Asia

PARIS, 1st February 2008 (IBIB) – As the Nobel Selection Committee for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize closes the deadline for nominations today (1st February 2008), the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed that the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam …

Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the UBCV sends Lunar New Year’s Greetings to Vietnamese Overseas and thanks Amnesty International for campaigning for his release in response to question by Y Lan Penelope Faulkner, Radio Free Asia

Y Lan Penelope Faulkner: Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, could you tell me your impressions upon hearing about Amnesty International Group 65 in Canada’s campaign for your release ? On the eve of the Lunar New Year, could you bestow some words …

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Thai ‘pressure’ to stop rights event on Vietnam: media group

BANGKOK, 13 September 2010 (AFP) – Thailand has threatened to deny visas to activists attending a Vietnamese human rights conference amid “pressure” to cancel the event, a journalist group said Sunday. Authorities said that while Thailand attached “great importance” to freedom of expression, it would not allow “activities detrimental to …