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 …
Read More »– 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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 …
Read More »“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 …
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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 …
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