Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
While the EU recently elevated its relationship with Viet Nam to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, civic space within Viet Nam continues to shrink. This repression is no longer contained within Viet Nam’s borders. Recent high-level state visits between Thai and Vietnamese authorities have signaled a dangerous tightening of bilateral security …
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Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand
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Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue
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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong
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Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
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VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
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On the eve of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do Calls for the Creation of a Free Trade Union to Protect Worker Rights in Vietnam
PARIS, 30th March 2006 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) received today an “Open Letter” from Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Head of the Executive Institute (Vien Hoa Dao) of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), calling on international labour movements, donor agencies and …
Read More »UBCV nun Thich Nu Thong Man is harassed and expelled from her pagoda for membership of the Khanh Hoa UBCV representative board
The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received an urgent appeal for assistance from members of the provincial representative board of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in the central province of Khanh Hoa. They report that local officials and Police have expelled Buddhist nun Thich Nu Thong Man …
Read More »dpa : Raids on Vietnamese Protestants may draw U.S. protest
HANOI, Feb 19, 2006 (dpa) – Police in northern Vietnam broke up an evangelical Christian prayer meeting and questioned more than a dozen church leaders as part of a crackdown on “illegal religion,” documents obtained by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa revealed Sunday. The news came as a US human …
Read More »dpa : Dissident Vietnamese monk released after arrest
HANOI, Feb 18, 2006 (dpa)- Dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do has been released from Vietnamese police custody after being detained for violating his house arrest, a Paris-based group linked to the monk said Saturday. Vietnamese police have refused to talk about the case since reports of the …
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