Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
GENEVA, 27 September 2024 (VCHR) – Speaking today at the UN Human Rights Council’s 57th session in Geneva on behalf of FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), VCHR President Penelope Faulkner informed the UNthat“reprisals against human rights defenders, the existence of political prisoners, and the repression of …
Read More »-
Vietnam refuses to address serious human rights concerns at UN Universal Periodic Review
-
EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell should call for the immediate release of environmental rights defenders in his visit to Vietnam
-
Vietnam fails to address serious human rights concerns at its 4th Universal Periodic Review at the UN
-
International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget
-
Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
News
AFP : Buddhists worldwide back Myanmar’s monks
Agence France Presse BANGKOK, 4 Oct 2007 (AFP) -The Buddhist monks who led Myanmar’s protests have drawn support from fellow believers worldwide, including Tibetan and Vietnamese spiritual leaders who are no strangers to state persecution. This week, as hundreds of disrobed monks could be heard chanting from inside …
Read More »Venerable Thich Quang Do holds prayer service in Saigon for the monks and people of Burma, and urges Vietnamese to stage peaceful protests outside Burmese Embassies to call for an end to the bloodshed and a dialogue with democratic opposition
PARIS, 2 October 2007 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau has received an “Announcement” from the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) calling on Vietnamese Buddhist clergy at home and abroad to organize prayers and vigils for the Buddhist …
Read More »At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Global Civil Society Democracy Movement denounces Vietnam’s candidacy to the Security Council before the UN Democracy Caucus
NEW YORK, 1st October 2007 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – In an Oral Statement to Ministers of over 100 member-states of the United Nations Democracy Caucus meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York today (Monday 1st October), the Non-governmental International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies called on the …
Read More »Venerable Thich Quang Do calls on United Nations to take emergency action on Burma and expresses solidarity with Buddhists’ and civilians’ peaceful, democratic protests
NEW YORK, 28 September 2007 (IBIB) – In face of the violent crackdown on peaceful protests in Burma, the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) addressed a letter today to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for urgent …
Read More »
