VIET NAM: Children's Rights in Special Procedures' Reports
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which are available as separate reports.
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Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
(E/CN.4/1999/58/Add.2)
Mr. Abdelfattah Amor
Country visit: 19 to 28 October 1998
Report published: 29 December 1998
- Pressure on Buddhists: The Buddhist Youth Movement, an essential part of the Buddhist educational network, had been broken up and replaced by a "Youth Union section" subsidiary to the Communist Party (paragraph 66).
- Growth of the Catholic Church: The representatives of the Catholic Church consider that the situation of their community has been characterised, since the 1990 opening, by a gradual evolution made up of both advances and the retention of limitations (as compared with a previous period characterised by a form of persecution and discrimination because the Catholic Church was perceived as being an instrument of Westernisation and colonialism). A strong and developing religious practice, particularly among young people, has been observed. This development has been interpreted as resulting both from conditions more favourable to religion and from an inward search for faith to compensate for a very restricted outside social life (paragraph 72).
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