Story By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Editor
New York, NY (HNN) -- Last week, Indigenous Peoples put pressure on the chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, demanding to have the right to speak on the recommendations of the Permanent Forum.
From KKF President
Happy New Year
Year of the Rat 2552
Best wish to all beloved compatriots
Year of the Rat is another joyful time for us to celebrate the New Year. The aspiration of this celebration is to celebrate and bring in good luck, good health to ourselves and our love one as well as our beloved country.
Year of The Rat 2552 B.E.
On behalf of members of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, we would like to wish everyone happy and safe Khmer New Year!
Click below to read the wishes from KKF’s President, Mr. Thach Ngoc Thach in Khmer.
Members of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation(KKF) have traveled to Geneva, Switzerland for the 7th Session of Human Rights Council (HRC), arriving earlier this week.
Mr. Thach Ngoc Thach, KKF President, Mr. Thach Vien, KKF Vice President of Europe Chapter, Venerable Thach Berong, KKF International Affairs Officer and Mr. Thhai Makarar, KKF Youth Committee headed to Geneva to submit a report to the HRC about the ongoing human rights abuses and religious violations committed by the Vietnam government.
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2008
Please note below are selected extracts from the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007. Click here to read FULL VERSION of the report.
CHRC briefing: A presentation by U.S. Embassy Hanoi DCM Jon Aloisi
2-12-08
By Beth Hearn from LCHR
Viet Nam could be on a trajectory to multi-party democracy in the next fifteen or twenty years, according to Jon Aloisi, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.
Click here to read announcement in Khmer
On behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation, we sadly announce the passing of Mrs. Kieng Thi Thanh. She passed away yesterday at 3:58am in her home, Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America at the young age of 40.
Originally posted by Human Rights Watch
2007 was characterized by the harshest crackdown on peaceful dissent in 20 years. The government, emboldened by international recognition after joining the World Trade Organization in late 2006, moved to suppress all challenges to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) by arresting dozens of democracy and human rights activists, independent trade union leaders, underground publishers, and members of unsanctioned religious groups. This reversed a temporary easing of restrictions in 2006, prior to Vietnam�s hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when independent activism and opposition political parties had surfaced.
“A day of action – Khmer Krom Religious Rights Day on 22nd of February, 2008”
Vietnam is a communist one party. The human rights situation in Vietnam is a catastrophe: its people, especially its indigenous peoples such as the Khmer Krom continue to be systematically persecuted, detained, tortured and in the worse case killed because they express their political or religious views.
Original RFA report in Khmer
Translated by KKF
31/12/07
The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation has just finished their annual end of year conference in Long Beach, California at 3pm Cambodia time this Sunday.
