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Vietnam Committee issues joint statement on Vietnam-EU human rights dialogue in Hanoi
Vietnam - EU: Release of rights and pro-democracy activists litmus test for human rights dialogue
PARIS-GENEVA-BANGKOK, January 10, 2012 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE & OBSERVATORY) - The first full-fledged human rights dialogue of the European Union with Vietnam needs to be accompanied with the release of all human rights defenders currently imprisoned, in detention, or under house arrest, said the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).
On January (...) continue
Vietnam Committee applauds UN expert’s call to close down rehabilitation centres for drug users and sex workers in Vietnam
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Mr. Anand Grover
Special Rapporteur
on the right to health
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PARIS, 7 December 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - The Vietnam Committee for Human Rights applauds the call to close down so-called “rehabilitation centres” for injecting drug users and female sex workers by the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Mr. Anand Grover following his visit to Vietnam from 25 November to 5 December 2011. In comments at the conclusion of his visit, the UN expert esteemed that detention and compulsory treatment of people in such centres perpetuated “stigmatization (...) continue
PARIS, 5 December 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, wrote to the European Parliament to call on Vietnam to respect human rights and democratic freedoms during their meeting with a high-level delegation from Vietnam visiting the EP today, Monday 5 December 2011. The delegation of 70 people includes the Speaker of the Vietnamese National Assembly Nguyen Sinh Hung, Finance Minister Vuong Dinh (...) continue
PARIS, 29 November 2011 (IBIB) - The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and 2012 Nobel Peace Prize nominee was consecrated Fifth Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) at the UBCVs 9th Congress from 18-20 November 2011. Because of continuous government repression against the outlawed UBCV, the 9th Congress could not be held in Vietnam as required by the UBCV Charter. It was therefore held at the UBCVs overseas office in the Dieu Ngu Pagoda (...) continue
Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do: Democracy alone can protect Vietnamese sovereignty from Chinese encroachment
PARIS, 31 October 2011 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau in Paris has received an Open Letter from the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) to Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong. The letter denounced the lack of transparency in the Vietnam-China settlement of land and sea disputes during Nguyen Phu Trong’s visit to China from 11-15 October 2011. The UBCV leader, 83, said the only (...) continue
PARIS, 11 October 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - International personalities and organizations have joined the appeal launched on the 9th World Day against the Death Penalty by Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights (VCHR) for an end to capital punishment in Vietnam (1). The two organizations first began campaigning for the abolition of capital punishment in Vietnam at the 56th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in (...) continue
Vietnam makes the Death Penalty “more humane”
PARIS, 10 October 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - As abolitionists around the world mark the 9th World Day against the Death Penalty on 10th October 2011 under this year’s theme, “the Inhumanity of the Death Penalty”, Paris-based Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights called for an end to capital punishment in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
“Capital punishment is a violation of the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration (...) continue
GENEVA, 15 September 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Speaking on behalf of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today, Mr. Vo Tran Nhat called on Vietnam to cease recent repression of peaceful demonstrations, release all demonstrators still under detention and repeal anti-demonstration laws that contravene Vietnam’s international obligations under the UN Covenant on Civil and Political (...) continue
PARIS, 23 August 2011 (FIDH) - On June 24, 2011, Vo Van Ai, President and Founder of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), a member organization of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), was awarded the 9th Special Prize for Freedom by the Italian organisation Società Libera.
The Award was given to recognize Mr. Ai’s life-long work to promote greater respect for human rights and the rule of law (...) continue
At the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies: Global Civil society Leaders Urge Support for Democratization in Vietnam
VILNIUS, 1st July 2011 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Governmental delegations from 100 democratic countries and over 120 civil society leaders and democracy activists from all over the world met together in Vilnius for the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies on 1st July 2011 to discuss strategies for strengthening democracy support worldwide. The Ministerial meeting was preceded by a Civil Society Forum, hosted by the Nongovernmental International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies, and a series of High (...) continue
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