PARIS, 30 January 2017 (IBIB) – The Most Venerable Thích Quảng Độ, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has issued a Message for the Lunar New Year of the Rooster (Tết), sent from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon where he is under effective house arrest. …
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URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY VNM 001 / 0117 / OBS 011 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment VIET NAM January 24, 2017 PARIS-GENEVA, January 24, 2017 (THE OBSERVATORY & VCHR) – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture …
Read More »PARIS, 7 December 2016 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) calls on the European Union to use the upcoming EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue to press Hanoi to address serious human rights abuses and commit to substantive, measurable progress in Vietnam. The dialogue will be held in Brussels …
Read More »PARIS, 19 November 2016 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) strongly denounces the adoption of a new Law on Belief and Religion by Vietnam’s 14th National Assembly on Friday 18 November at the end of its second session. VCHR believes that the law, which replaces the current …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the 10th anniversary of the State Department’s removal of Vietnam’s designation as a “country of particular concern” (or CPC), the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sees a country that has made progress but still has a long way …
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PARIS 6 October 2016 (VCHR) – 54 prominent religious and civil society organisations in Vietnam, the USA, Europe and Asia have sent an Open Letter to the President of Vietnam’s National Assembly, Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, calling for the revision of the Draft Law on Belief and Religion …
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PARIS, 22 September 2016 (FIDH & VCHR) – Vietnam must end the ongoing repression of peaceful dissent, repeal its repressive laws, and immediately release all political prisoners, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. FIDH and VCHR’s call followed the imprisonment of three …
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PARIS 4 September 2016 (VCHR) – Three France-based human rights organizations, the FIDH, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) have sent an Open Letter to French President François Hollande on the eve of his visit to Vietnam (5th – 7th …
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JOHANNESBURG, 27 August 2016 (VCHR) – At the 39th Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) in Johannesburg, South Africa from 23 – 27 August 2016, 400 human rights defenders representing 178 member leagues of the FIDH from 117 countries around the world adopted a “Resolution on …
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PARIS, 30 March 2016 (VCHR) – The Minister of Public Security has issued new regulations which limit the right to demonstrate in Vietnam and give Police broad powers to crack down on public gatherings outside Courts when trials are in session. Circular 13/2016/TT-BCA on “Regulations on the duties of …
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