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Land Rights defenders: the forgotten victims of unbridled development
Publication of the 2014 Annual Report of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

December 2, 2014 VCHR 0

Paris-Geneva, December 2, 2014 – Land rights defenders are increasingly the target of repressive measures, says the Observatory in a new report published today in The Philippines, Mexico, and South Africa, and which will be presented tomorrow in Geneva at the United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. …

Buddhist New Year calendar is an “anti-State” document in Vietnam

November 25, 2014 IBIB 0

PARIS, 25.11.2014 (IBIB) – The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) reports that a young UBCV monk, Venerable Thich Minh Nghia, was intercepted and harassed by a group of plain-clothed security police on 21 November 2014 in Hue. He had just come out of a printing house where he had …

New Report denounces Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vietnam

November 11, 2014 News, Press Release, VCHR 0

GENEVA, 11 November 2014 (VCHR) – In a new joint report released at the United Nations in Geneva today, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and the FIDH document serious violations of economic, social and cultural rights in Vietnam. The 36-page report, entitled “Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights …

Vietnam: Progress urged towards abolishing the death penalty

October 10, 2014 VCHR 0

PARIS, 10 October 2014 (FIDH & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights) – Vietnam must put an end to executions and undertake incremental and time-bound reforms towards abolishing the death penalty, FIDH and its member organization VCHR said today to mark the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty. “Despite Vietnam’s …

Vietnam Committee denounces impediments to the visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief to Vietnam

September 16, 2014 News, Press Release, VCHR 0

GENEVA, 16 September 2014 (VCHR) – Speaking at the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva jointly with Acting together for Human Rights (Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme), Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) denounced impediments to the …

Viet Nam: Three human rights defenders sentenced to jail

August 26, 2014 VCHR 0

PARIS-GENEVA, August 26, 2014 (Observatory & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights) – The arbitrary imprisonment of three human rights defenders on trumped-up charged makes a mockery of Vietnam’s human rights commitments and obligations, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of FIDH and the …

Viet Nam: Drop trumped-up charges against human rights defenders Bui Thi Minh Hang, Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh and Nguyen Van Minh

August 25, 2014 VCHR 0

PARIS-GENEVA, August 25, 2014 (Observatory & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights) – The Vietnamese Government must drop all charges against human rights defenders Bui Thi Minh Hang, Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh and Nguyen Van Minh and immediately release them, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint …

EU-Vietnam: FIDH and VCHR submit a Complaint to EU Ombudsman

August 12, 2014 News, Press Release, VCHR 0

BRUSSELS-PARIS, 12 August 2014 (VCHR & FIDH) – In a complaint filed in Brussels on 7 August 2014, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), requested that the EU Ombudsman address the European Commission’s refusal to take human rights …

Despite impediments and surveillance, UN Religious Freedom Expert visits Buddhist Leader Thich Quang Do in Vietnam

July 31, 2014 VCHR 0

PARIS, 31 July 2014 (VCHR) – At the end of an 11-day fact-finding trip to Vietnam, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt expressed regret that he was closely followed and was unable to meet some religious groups because they were under heavy surveillance, intimidated …

VIETNAM: Blogger Truong Duy Nhat’s two-year prison sentence upheld

June 30, 2014 VCHR 0

PARIS-GENEVA, June 30, 2014 (OBSERVATORY & VCHR). On June 26, the highest jurisdiction in Vietnam upheld a two-year prison sentence against blogger Truong Duy Nhat. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), denounce the Supreme …