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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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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 …

As tensions rise over Chinese claims of sovereignty on the Paracel and Spratly islands: Buddhist dissident Thich Quang Do calls for democratic rights and freedoms to guarantee territorial integrity in Vietnam

PARIS, 28th December 2007 (IBIB) – In the wake of widespread demonstrations staged by students and young people outside Chinese Embassies in Hanoi and Saigon, and strong protests by the Vietnamese community overseas, the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church …

In a rare TV interview, detained UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do calls for democracy in Vietnam

PARIS, 24 December 2007 (IBIB) – Speaking from house arrest at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Most Venerable Thich Quang Do gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the situation in Vietnam. This is …