USCIRF 2012 Annual Report

Originally posted at khmerkrom.net:The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) just released the 2012 Annual Report. In this report, there is a section dedicates about the “Khmer Buddhism” and mentioned that "The situation of the ethnic Khmer Buddhists has been an underreported problem in the State Department‘s Religious Freedom report." USCIRF’s report recommends to the U.S. government to urge the Vietnamese government to "allow the banned Unified Buddhist Church...

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Mid-Term Implementation Assessment on Vietnam

Originally posted at khmerkrom.net: The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new mechanism of the United Nations to review all States in the world regarding to their fulfillment of human rights obligations every four years. Vietnam had been reviewed by the Human Rights Council’s UPR Working Group in 2009. During this review, there were 172 recommendations to Vietnam. The UPR Info organization (upr-info.org) just released the Mid-Term Implementation Assessment (MIA) on Vietnam. According...

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