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Vietnam Committee : ASEM 5 People’s Forum : Interview of Deborah Stothard, Coordinator of Southeast Asia-based Altsean Burma – the Alternative Asean Network on Burma

September 15, 2004 Resources 0

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 …

Vietnam Committee : Twenty-three sample cases of detained Vietnamese civil society advocates

September 4, 2004 Resources 0

– 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 …

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

December 4, 2003 Resources 0

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. …

BBC Online : Vietnam dissidents win freedom

November 28, 2003 Resources 0

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 …

IBIB : Open Letter to the European Union Troïka

November 23, 2003 Resources 0

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 …

New attack on the Freedom of Religion. The EU must respond with the utmost firmness !

October 23, 2003 Resources 0

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 …

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

October 10, 2003 Resources 0

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 …

US Congress : Letter of 37 Prominent Members of the U.S. Congress urging Vietnam to release Buddhist dissidents Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do

April 3, 2003 Resources 0

“Dear Excellencies, “We respectfully urge that you facilitate the immediate release of the Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and his deputy, Venerable Thich Quang Do. “These courageous leaders have spent much of the last 25 years detained without charge or trial …

VCHR : The Socialist Republic of Vietnam :
Violations of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities in the Northern and Central Highlands

July 30, 2001 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

Report compiled byVietnam Committee on Human Rightsfor the 59th Session (30 July-17 August 2001)of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (hereafter « Vietnam Committee ») welcomes the Report submitted by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on its implementation of the International Convention on …

Appeal for Democracy in Vietnam by Thich Quang Do (extracts) 21.2.2001

February 21, 2001 Resources, Thich Quang Do, UBCV 0

As the Vietnamese Communist Party launched consultations on the political platform of its Ninth Party Congress, Venerable Thich Quang Do addressed an “Appeal for democracy in Vietnam” to VCP Secretary-general Le Kha Phieu, President Tran Duc Luong, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and National Assembly President Nong Duc Manh. The …