Attn: President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Communist Party Secretary-General Nguyen Phu Trong January 30, 2013 Re: Arbitrary internment of Le Anh Hung in “Social Support Centre No 2” Ung Hoa, Hanoi, January 24, 2013 Your Excellencies, The Observatory for the Protection of …
Read More »GIÁO HỘI PHẬT GIÁO VIỆT NAM THỐNG NHẤT VIỆN TĂNG THỐNG Thanh Minh Thiền viện 90 Trần Huy Liệu, Phường 15, Quận Phú Nhuận, Saigon Phật Lịch 2556 Số 10/VTT/XLTV DECLARATION of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam on the state of our country and the situation of human rights …
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ARBITRARY DETENTION OF PRO-DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVISTS IN VIETNAM Testimony by VO VAN AI President, Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights Honorable Chairman, Distinguished Members of Congress, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to testify at this important hearing and express …
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Alternative Report on the Implementation of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD):
Read More »Biographyof the UBCV Fifth Supreme Patriarch Thich Quang Do Thich Quang Do, secular name Dang Phuc Tue, was born on 27 November 1928 in Thanh Chau village in Thai Binh province (northern Vietnam). He became a monk at the age of 14. In 1945, when he was just 17, he …
Read More »REMARKS BY SHERIF MANSOUR at the 9th UBCV Congress, Westminster, California 20th November 2011 Good Morning Everyone, I would like to start by thanking Vo Van Ai and the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) for organizing this event and inviting me to talk to you today. My name is …
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Good afternoon My name is Marietje Schaake, I am a Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. I am very sorry I cannot join you today in California today but hopefully I can contribute to your discussion through this short video message. In the European Parliament my focus …
Read More »Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me here today to honour the Buddhist leader and the outstanding human rights champion, the Venerable Thich Quang Do. I am proud to be part of an event that brings together so many Vietnamese Buddhists and …
Read More »Venerable THICH VIEN DINH Head of the Institute for the Dissemination of the Dharma (Viện Hóa Đạo) Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Venerable Thich Vien Dinh, secular name Nhu Van Trung, was born on 8 July 1951 in Chanh Trach hamlet, My Tho village, Phu My district in the central …
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Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights