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Observatory on Human Rights Defenders launches Urgent Appeal on the arbitrary sentencing of environmental rights activists Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương

PARIS, 18 August 2022 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply shocked by the appeal trials of environmental rights defenders Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương in Hanoi on 11 August 2022. The High People’s Court upheld the five-year prison sentence against …

Vietnam: Sentencing and arbitrary detention of environmental rights defender Nguy Thi Khanh

URGENT APPEAL – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Vietnam. VNM 002 / 0622 / OBS 054Arbitrary detention /Judicial harassment/ VietnamJune 24, 2022 Description of the situation: …

Vietnam: EU must demand end to repression of civil society, respect of human rights pledges

BRUSSELS, PARIS, 5 April 2022 (FIDH & VCHR): The European Union (EU) must use the upcoming human rights dialogue to demand the Vietnamese government end repression of civil society and fulfill its pledges stemming from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human …

Prominent civil society activist Mai Phan Lợi condemned to four years in prison in Vietnam

Mai Phan Lợi PARIS, 12 January 2022 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) protests the arbitrary conviction of civil society activist Mai Phan Lợi to four years in prison by the Hanoi People’s Court at a one-day trial on 11 January 2022. Lợi was accused of “tax …

Vietnam: Immediately release independent journalist and human rights defender Pham Doan Trang

Ahead of her upcoming trial on 4 November, the undersigned 28 human rights and freedom of expression organizations today condemn the ongoing arbitrary detention of independent journalist and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang. We call on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges …

Vietnam arrests CSO leaders and blocks civil society participation in scrutiny of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement

PARIS, 8 July 2021 (VCHR) – With the first anniversary of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) only weeks away (1st August 2021), Vietnam has backtracked on its promises to the European Union by arresting key civil society activists and blocking the establishment of a mandatory “Domestic Advisory Group” of …

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Observatory on Human Rights Defenders launches Urgent Appeal on the arbitrary sentencing of environmental rights activists Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

Vietnam: Sentencing and arbitrary detention of environmental rights defender Nguy Thi Khanh

Vietnam: EU must demand end to repression of civil society, respect of human rights pledges

Prominent civil society activist Mai Phan Lợi condemned to four years in prison in Vietnam

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Observatory on Human Rights Defenders launches Urgent Appeal on the arbitrary sentencing of environmental rights activists Đăng Đình Bách, Mai Phan Lợi and Bạch Hùng Dương

Vietnam: Sentencing and arbitrary detention of environmental rights defender Nguy Thi Khanh

Vietnam: EU must demand end to repression of civil society, respect of human rights pledges

Prominent civil society activist Mai Phan Lợi condemned to four years in prison in Vietnam

Vietnam: Immediately release independent journalist and human rights defender Pham Doan Trang

Vietnam arrests CSO leaders and blocks civil society participation in scrutiny of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement

VCHR Reports

In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, VCHR and FIDH denounce grave violations of the right to freedom of expression, treatment of human rights defenders and use of the death penalty in Vietnam

Alternative Report to the UN Human Rights Committee on the Third Periodic Report of Vietnam on Implementation of the ICCPR (2019)

Open Letter: EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement contravenes the EU’s human rights obligations

FIDH & VCHR Joint submission for Vietnam’s third UPR

VCHR & FIDH Joint Submission for the adoption of the List of Issues for the United Nations Human Right Committee

Shrinking Spaces: Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam during the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review

VCHR: The Death Penalty in Vietnam 2016

VCHR – Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vietnam: State Management of Religions

UBCV, The Movement for Religious Freedom in Vietnam (2015)

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of the Rights of Women in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

VCHR & FIDH : Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vietnam

Banned Civil Society Voices (2014)

Videos

Message from the Most Venerable Thích Quảng Độ to the Conference “Vietnamese and Tibetan Buddhism under threat” (11 July 2018)

40,000 Buddhists demonstrate in Hue (24/05/1993)

Religious Freedom in Vietnam: Its importance for Regional and Global Security (Washington DC, 12 September 2016)

World Watch Monitor: Vietnam’s new Religion Law aims to repress, control

World Watch Monitor: Vietnam’s relationship with EU and US, and its impact on religious freedom

VCHR’s Oral Statement before the UN Human Rights Council (20 June 2014) (in French)

MEP Schaake speaks at IBIB Conference on violations of Internet freedom in Vietnam (Houston, Texas, 6 June 2013)

Ms. Marietje Schaake, MEP: Video message to the IXth UBCV Congress

Thich Quang Do – Forbidden Faith in Vietnam (Oslo Freedom Forum, 28 April 2010)

Vo Van Ai – The Impact of Indifference (Oslo Freedom Forum, 20 May 2009)

Message from Very Venerable Thich Quang Do to the UN Commission on Human Rights