Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
IBIB : Interview with Thich Thien Minh
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Vietnam Committee : Interview with the Hon. Emma Bonino MEP on the Open Letter signed by 109 MEPs to the European Union at the Fifth ASEM Summit, 8-9 October 2004, Hanoi, with Penelope Faulkner, Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam (Broadcast to Vietnam on Radio Free Asia, 8.10.2004)
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 »EP : Open Letter to the European Union for the Fifth ASEM Summit in Hanoi (8-9 October 2004)
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 »Vietnam Committee : ASEM 5 People’s Forum : Interview of Deborah Stothard, Coordinator of Southeast Asia-based Altsean Burma – the Alternative Asean Network on Burma
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 …
Read More »Vietnam Committee : Twenty-three sample cases of detained Vietnamese civil society advocates
– Most Venerable THICH HUYEN QUANG, (secular name Le Dinh Nhan), 87, Supreme Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). First arrested in 1977, then sent into internal exile in 1982 for protesting the creation of the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church, Thich Huyen Quang has spent over …
Read More »IBIB : 107 Buddhist monks in Hue condemn rejection of US Congress Resolution by Thich Tri Tinh, Head of the Executive Council of the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church
The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a letter co-signed by 107 young Buddhist monks in Hue. Dated 30th November 2003, it strongly condemns a recent letter from Thich Tri Tinh, President of the Executive Council of the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church (VBC) to the Speaker of the U.S. …
Read More »BBC Online : Vietnam dissidents win freedom
Three relatives of a jailed Vietnamese dissident who were accused of passing information abroad about his arrest have had their prison sentences cut short. Brothers Nguyen Vu Viet and Nguyen Truc Cuong, who were imprisoned for five and four years respectively in September, had their terms cut by the Ho …
Read More »IBIB : Open Letter to the European Union Troïka
on the Forthcoming EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Hanoi, November 26th 2003 H.E. Luigi Solari, Italian Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam H.H. Dan Mulhall, Irish Embassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam H.E. the Greek Ambassador to the Soclialist Republic of Vietnam Paris, 23rd November 2003 Your Excellencies, As …
Read More »New attack on the Freedom of Religion. The EU must respond with the utmost firmness !
Brussels, 23 October 2003. The Vietnamese authorities have effectively placed 11 dissident monks belonging to the outlawed United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) under house arrest for two years. Among them is the Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang, whose arbitrary detention has now lasted over 20 years, and his deputy Thich …
Read More »The new arrest of the leaders of the UBCV must be the last straw. The patient of the European Union has been tested long enough
Brussels, 10 October 2003. The Ven. Thich Huyen Quang, the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), the Ven. Thich Quang Do and other leading dignitaries of the UBCV have been subjected over the last 48 hours to pressure of all types, ending with their arrest. The Patriarch …
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