Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
Vietnam rejects key UN recommendations to improve human rights at adoption of Universal Periodic Review report
GENEVA, 20 June 2014 (Vietnam Committee) – At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today, Vietnam rejected 45 key recommendations made by member states to improve human rights protection and uphold the fundamental rights of its citizens in Vietnam. The Council was examining the Working Group’s report on …
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Buddhist Youth Leader Lê Thi Tuyêt Mai has immolated herself in Ho Chi Minh City
PARIS, 23.05.2014 (IBIB) –The International Buddhist Information Bureau in Paris is informed that a member of the Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia đình Phật tử Việt Nam), an affiliate of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) immolated herself at 5.30am today, 23rd May 2014 outside the Reunification Palace, the former …
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Buddhist Youth Leader Lê Thi Tuyêt Mai dies after self-immolation in Ho Chi Minh City
PARIS, 23.05.2014 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau in Paris has received further news about Ms. Lê Thị Tuyết Mai, member of the Buddhist Youth Movement. She died today after immolating herself outside the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) at 5.30 this morning (Vietnam time). Le …
Read More »Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do denounces China’s violations of Vietnamese territorial waters
PARIS, 12.05.2014 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau has received an urgent communication from the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), sent clandestinely from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery where he is under de facto house arrest. Deeply disturbed by …
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Over sixty religious figures, Nobel Peace Prize laureates, legislators and civil society leaders call on Vietnam to cease religious repression and release Thich Quang Do on UN Vesak Day
PARIS, 7 May 2014 (Vietnam Committee) – As Vietnam hosts celebrations of the United Nations Day of the Vesak (Birth, Enlightenment and Passing away of the Buddha) at the Bai Dinh Temple in Ninh Binh from 7-11 May, sixty one prominent international personalities have launched a joint appeal to the …
Read More »Vietnam: Arbitrary arrests and harassment of bloggers and activists continue
PARIS, 7 May 2014 (FIDH & VCHR) – : Vietnam must end the arbitrary arrest and harassment of activists and bloggers and immediately release the more than 200 political prisoners it holds, FIDH and its member organization, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), said today. On 5 May, Vietnamese …
Read More »EU-Vietnam FTA: GUE, Greens, and civil society obtain partial but important victory for human rights
BRUSSELS-PARIS, 23 April 2014 (FIDH & VCHR) – The resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 17 April 2014 on the state of play of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is an important step towards strengthening human rights protection, FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said …
Read More »Buddhist Youth Leader Le Cong Cau writes to Hanoi leadership protesting arbitrary house arrest
PARIS, 22.04.2014 (IBIB) – Le Cong Cau, leader of the Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia đình Phật tử Việt Nam) and Secretary-general of the Executive Institute of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has written a letter to Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and …
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The Wall Street Journal: The Death of Vietnam’s Teacher Dinh (By Vo Van Ai)
As Hanoi was opposing a U.N. human rights resolution, activist Dinh Dang Dinh died of medical neglect. The United Nations Human Rights Council last month extended the mandate of a special rapporteur to monitor abuses of human rights defenders around the world. While that vote was happening, one …
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