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At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva : Vo Van Ai calls on Vietnam to legalize Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and allow UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do to travel to Norway to receive Rafto 2006 Human Rights Award

GENEVA, 27 September 2006 (Vietnam Committee) – Speaking today at a parallel event on “Freedom and Democracy Perspectives in Southeast Asia” with speakers from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and International Spokesman of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam …

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UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is hospitalized in Binh Dinh – Patriarch tells Public Security Vice-Minister Nguyen Khanh Toan that he will never abandon struggle for the right to existence of the outlawed UBCV

PARIS, 26 September 2006 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist information Bureau is informed that the Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang is in hospital. The Patriarch, 86, has been very tired and suffered from breathing difficulties since Friday (22nd September), and asked …

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Venerable Thich Quang Do is awarded 2006 Rafto Prize for human rights

PARIS, 21 st September 2006 (IBIB) – The Rafto Foundation in Bergen, Norway, announced today that Venerable Thich Quang Do, second-ranking leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has been chosen to receive the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for his contribution to the cause of …

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AFP : Vietnamese monk wins Norwegian prize for human rights

  Agence France Presse   OSLO, 21 September 2006 (AFP) – Thich Quang Do, a Vietnamese monk currently under house arrest, has been awarded the annual Norwegian Rafto human rights prize for his work in promoting democracy and freedom of expression. The 77-year-old monk, researcher and author had “devoted his …

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VCHR Reports

Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand

Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue

Oral Statement by Penelope Faulkner (UN Human Rights Committee, 7 July 2025)

New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam

A History of Violence: Repression of the right to freedom of assembly in Vietnam

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

Alternative Report to the UN Human Rights Committee on the Third Periodic Report of Vietnam on Implementation of the ICCPR (2019)

Open Letter: EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement contravenes the EU’s human rights obligations

FIDH & VCHR Joint submission for Vietnam’s third UPR

VCHR & FIDH Joint Submission for the adoption of the List of Issues for the United Nations Human Right Committee

Shrinking Spaces: Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam during the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review

VCHR: The Death Penalty in Vietnam 2016

VCHR – Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vietnam: State Management of Religions

UBCV, The Movement for Religious Freedom in Vietnam (2015)

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of the Rights of Women in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vietnam

Banned Civil Society Voices (2014)

FIDH & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights : Vietnam and Free trade Agreement negotiations: NGOs urge the EU to carry out a human rights impact assessment

Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars: Restrictions on Internet Freedom in Vietnam (FIDH & VCHR)

Arbitrary Detention In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Testimony by Vo Van Ai, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing on "Vietnam: Continuing Abuses of Human Rights and Religious Freedom", Washington D.C., 15 May 2012

Arbitrary Detention In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Testimony by VCHR President Võ Văn Ái, Washington DC, May 15, 2012)

VCHR : Violations of the Rights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

VCHR – Rule of Law or Rule by Law, Crime and Punishment in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Report)

FIDH & VCHR : “From “Vision” to Facts: Human Rights in Vietnam under its Chairmanship of ASEAN”

Political Stability vs Democratic Freedom ? Economic Crisis and Political Repression in Vietnam
Document of the VCHR for the Hearing on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam of the Sub-commission on Human Rights, European Parliament (Brussels, 25 August 2008)

Prominent International Organizations issue Mission Report on Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam

VCHR : The Socialist Republic of Vietnam :
Violations of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities in the Northern and Central Highlands

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