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In Hai Phong, Thich Man Thien withdraws from State-sponsored VBC and asks to join the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam – Repression of UBCV intensifies in Binh Dinh, Thua Thien-Hue, Dong Nai and Bac Lieu

February 14, 2007 IBIB 0

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 …

AP : Vietnam denies human rights group’s request to present award to dissident

February 14, 2007 Press Review 0

    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 …

VIETNAM – CEDAW : “Only genuine and concrete measures will improve the respect for women’s rights”

February 12, 2007 VCHR 0

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 …

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Before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women : Vietnam Committee denounces persisting gender discrimination and violations of women’s rights in Vietnam

January 15, 2007 News, Press Release, VCHR 0

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 …

DPA : Vietnam denies banning Buddhist patriarch from hospital visit

January 4, 2007 Press Review 0

    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 …

AFP : Vietnam denies Buddhist dissident’s hospital visit : supporters

January 4, 2007 Press Review 0

Agence France Presse HANOI, Jan 4, 2007 (AFP) – Vietnamese police have prevented the 87-year-old leader of a banned Buddhist organisation from visiting his hospital for a medical checkup, a Paris-based pro-democracy group said on Thursday. Thich Huyen Quang, patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), was …

Security Police forbid UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang to travel to Saigon for hospital visit – Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire nominates Thich Quang Do for 2007 Nobel Peace prize

January 3, 2007 IBIB 0

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed by the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that Security Police in Binh Dinh province have prohibited UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for medical examinations at the Franco-Vietnamese hospital. In October 2006, the 87-year …

The Daily Telegraph : Vietnam dissident accuses Bush of betrayal

November 27, 2006 Press Review 0

Ho Chi Minh City, 27 November 2006 – Vietnam’s leading dissident yesterday accused America of betrayal after Washington took the Communist state off a list of countries of concern over religious freedom. Thich Quang Do, 77, is deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. He spent more …