The 2008 is ending and also is one of the hardest years of work, Great Spirit and unity. We started from day one after our year end meeting from the West coast to the East Coast of Canada; from the East coast United States to the Central and West coast. From Europe to Inland, Cambodia and the east of the world, New Zealand whiles recently the Australia’s best conference.Read in Khmer
PARIS, 23 December 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) - Prominent Member of the European Parliament, Marco Pannella, and Italian Senator Marco Perduca, were prevented from boarding a plane from Phnom Penh to Saigon today to visit Vietnam. They were scheduled to visit Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam leader Thich Quang Do today before travelling to Hanoi to meet Vietnamese officials and members of the National Assembly on 24-25th December. The trip followed an invitation extended by a delegation of members of the Vietnamese National Assembly during an Inter-parliamentary meeting at the EP in Strasbourg last week.
23/12/2008
Transnational Radical Party Press Release
Phnom Penh, 22 of December 2008
We publish here below the letter with whom the vietnamese travel agency Vungtau Intourco Hanoi informs about the denial of the permission to enter Vietnam to Marco Pannella and Marco Perduca - italian MEP and MP from the Nonviolent Radical Party, transnational and transparty - both stopped this morning in Phnom Pen airport, Cambodia.
Written by Brendan Brady
Phnom Penh Post
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Khmer Krom advocates barred from flight to Ho Chi Minh City
EUROPEAN government officials visiting the region to advocate for greater cultural and religious freedoms for Khmer Krom were stopped from boarding a flight Tuesday to Ho Chi Minh City from Phnom Penh's International Airport.
Below is an article written by UNPO representative Vien Thach:
The Khmer Krom delegation held a demonstration in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to support the resolution on the Human Rights abuses in Vietnam. The delegation consisted of 18 Khmer Krom supporting members among whom were 5 Buddhist monks. It took place on the 22 and the 23 of October.
Posted on Sep 8, 2008
by Baptist News
WASHINGTON (BP)--A bipartisan commission has urged the U.S. State Department to return Vietnam to its list of the world's worst violators of religious liberty.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Subcommittee on Human Rights learned of the latest human rights abuses going unpunished in Cambodia and Vietnam directly from UNPO Members.
Below is an article written by UNPO:
KKF Press Release
23/07/2008
On behalf of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation and Khmer Krom people around the world, we would like to acknowledge and announce our support towards the recognition of Cambodia’s Keo-Sikha-Kiri-Svarak (or also known as Wat Prasath Preah Vihear) as a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
By Serey Chau
When people visit San Francisco, they usually just want to visit China Town, the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Bridge or Peer 39. What most people do not realize that it is a historical place that in which United Nations Charter Signing Ceremony was conducted. This significant event happened in a place called “Herbst Theatre” which forms part of the War Memorial Performing Arts Center and across the street from San Francisco City Hall on Van Ness Avenue. (Left image: Venerable Ratana Son and Joshua Cooper holds up sign seeking the release of Venerable Tim Sakhorn)
KKF Press Release
The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, an indigenous organization representing millions of Khmer Krom people in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, as well as Human Rights Watch, a human rights organization are calling for the release and return of Tim Sakhorn to Cambodia without conditions or “probationary detention”.