U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights & International Operations HEARING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIETNAM Monday June 20th 2005, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington D.C. HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN VIETNAM Testimony by VO VAN AI UBCV Overseas Spokesman Director, International …
Read More »Paris, 13th June 2005 Dear Mr. President, In a few days, you will meet with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, the highest-ranking diplomat to visit the United States since the end of the Vietnam War. Vietnamese at home and abroad will be following this visit with close attention, and …
Read More »OPINION No. 18/2005 (VIETNAM) Communication : addressed to the Government on 1 December 2004 Concerning : Thich Quang Do (Dang Phuc Thue) and Thich Huyen Quang (Le Dinh Nhan) The State ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by resolution 1991/42 …
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This Message by the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, is addressed to the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. It was originally recorded on video, filmed secretly at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon …
Read More »Buddhist Era 2548 VTT/TT To : Mr. Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Vietnam Mr. Tran Duc Luong, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Phan Van Khai, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Nguyen Van An, President of the SRV National Assembly Dear …
Read More »Vietnam : Arbitrary Practices and Repression under cover of the Law The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and its affiliate, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (Vietnam Committee) are concerned by the numerous obstacles, both institutional and legal, to the adequate protection of fundamental rights in the Socialist Republic …
Read More »Penelope Faulkner : Emma Bonino, you are a former European Commissioner and one of the Members of the European Parliament who has spearheaded this Open Letter to the European Union at the Firth ASEM Summit held in Hanoi on 8-9 October 2004. Can you tell our listeners why you endorsed this …
Read More »EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT “We the undersigned, Members of the European Parliament, are deeply concerned by the Vietnamese government’s decision to separate, for the very first time, the official ASEM Summit and the ASEM People’s Forum, thus excluding civil society and separating Asian and European NGOs from their governments. We …
Read More »A rare insight into the People’s Forum was given by one of it’s key speakers, Ms Deborah Stothard, Coordinator of Southeast Asia-based Altsean Burma – the Alternative Asean Network on Burma, who addressed the Plenary session on “Democratisation and People’s Rights”. In an interview with Penelope Faulkner, Vice-President of the …
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Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights