Vietnam Committee : 2006 : Grave Violations of Human Rights in Vietnam
Statement to the 1st Session of the UN Human Rights Council Palais des Nations, Geneva, 19-30 June 2006

February 20, 2006 Resources 0

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is deeply concerned by the grave violations of human rights in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and by Vietnam’s consistent non-compliance with United Nations human rights mechanisms. Vietnam hopes to become a full member of the international community, yet it refuses to comply with …

dpa : Raids on Vietnamese Protestants may draw U.S. protest

February 19, 2006 Press Review 0

    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 …

dpa : Dissident Vietnamese monk released after arrest

February 18, 2006 Press Review 0

    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 …

AFP : Buddhist monk leader said arrested in Vietnam

February 17, 2006 Press Review 0

  Agence France Presse   HANOI, Feb 17, 2006 (AFP) – A leading Buddhist monk was arrested as he tried to visit the head of the dissident Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, who is under house arrest, an exile group in France said Friday. Police arrested the church’s deputy leader, …

December 4, 2005 Photos 0

European Parliament : European Parliament resolution on the human rights situation in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (P6_TA-PROV(2005)0462)

December 1, 2005 Resources 0

  EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT   The European Parliament, — having regard to the EU Annual Report on Human Rights 2005, — having regard to its earlier resolutions on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and, in particular, its resolution of 28 April 2005 on human rights in the world 2004, — having regard …

AFP : US commission wants Vietnam to remain in religious rights blacklist

October 27, 2005 Press Review 0

  Agence France Presse   WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AFP) – A US Congress-mandated commission has asked the State Department to retain Vietnam in a blacklist of religious rights violators. “Vietnam should be maintained as a “country of particular concern” in the department’s annual religious freedom report,” the US Commission on …

AFP : Diplomats meet Buddhist dissident in Vietnam

October 5, 2005 Press Review 0

  Agence France Presse   HANOI, Oct 5 (AFP) – One of Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissidents Thich Quang Do urged the European Union to help improve human rights in the country, an EU diplomat said Wednesday. The deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church met British Ambassador to …

AsiaNews : Western diplomats meet Buddhist dissident

October 5, 2005 Press Review 0

The British ambassador and an EU representative have managed to meet Thich Quang Do, the number two of Vietnam’s Unified Buddhist Church. Hanoi (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Freedom in Vietnam “is like the picture of a sweet: it looks delicious on paper, but it cannot be eaten”, said Thich Quang Do. Second …

New wave of repression against the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam

August 18, 2005 IBIB, News, Press Release 0

PARIS, August 18, 2005 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received an urgent communication from Vietnam concerning a new wave of repression against the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). The repression is targeted against members of Provincial Committees recently founded by the UBCV. Over the …