A month after a booming Vietnam joined the WTO, a U.N. committee flags violations of women’s rights, especially in rural areas. Democracy activists plan to broadcast the findings in underground media and lobby Vietnam’s trade partners. (WOMENSENEWS)–Vietnam, which joined the World Trade Organization in January and boasts a booming economy, …
Read More »Agence France Presse HANOI, 14 February 2007 (AFP) – Vietnam has refused to issue a visa to the head of a human rights foundation who wanted to visit the communist state to give its annual prize to a Buddhist monk, according to activists. Arne Liljedahl Lynngaard, chairman of the Rafto …
Read More »HANOI, 14 February 2007 (AP) – Vietnam has rejected the request of an international human rights group to present an award to a leading dissident, the organization said. Arne Liljedahl Lynngard, chairman of the Norway-based Rafto Foundation, had sought to visit Vietnam to present the group’s annual human …
Read More »Mr. Arne Liljedahl Lynngård, Chairman of the Rafto Foundation in Bergen, Norway, has informed the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights that the Vietnamese authorities have refused his request for a visa to visit Vietnam. On February 7, 2007, he received a letter from the Vietnamese Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, …
Read More »l For the first time in northern Vietnam, a monk from the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church (VBC) has announced that he is leaving the VBC to join the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). Venerable Thich Man Thien, secular name Nguyen Thanh Phong, told Vo Van Ai, Director of the International …
Read More »PARIS, 12 February 2007 (FIDH & VCHR) – FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) welcome the recent adoption by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee), of Concluding comments on Vietnam. Last month, the body of experts examined the …
Read More »NEW YORK, 15 January 2007 – Speaking before a panel of experts at the 37th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), at the United Nations in New York today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Vice-President of …
Read More »HANOI, January 4, 2007 (dpa) – Vietnam on Thursday denied a report that provincial authorities have forbidden the ailing patriarch of a banned Buddhist sect from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City for a medical examination. The government dismissed as a “total fabrication” a claim that security police …
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