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Vietnam fails to address serious human rights concerns at its 4th Universal Periodic Review at the UN

GENEVA, 11 May 2024 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) welcomes the 320 recommendations made by 133 UN member states to improve human rights in Vietnam at the 4th Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva on 7 May 2024. …
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International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget
Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
VCHR and FIDH expose grave violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Environmental and Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam spend International Human Rights Day behind bars

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The Nation : Getting Hanoi to loosen up

Ban on media covering forum is a step back from Vietnam’s place on the global stage Vietnam has made impressive headway since the country opened up in the mid-1980s with its doi moi policy, or renovation process. It has joined Asean and other major economic groupings both in …

AP : Journalists banned from attending ASEM People’s Forum in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam, 6 Sept (AP) – Communist Vietnam has banned journalists from covering the fifth Asia-Europe People’s Forum in Hanoi, with organizers saying Monday that there was not enough room to accommodate them. The announcement drew the ire of journalists who had traveled from various Southeast Asian countries …

dpa : ASEM Peoples Forum kicks off in Vietnams capital

HANOI, Sept 6, 2004 (dpa) – The fifth ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) People’s Forum got underway in the Vietnamese capital Monday with over 800 delegates from Europe and Southeast Asia expected to attend. The forum was officially opened by Vietnams Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, who said he was …

dpa : Journalists told no room at ASEM Peoples Forum in Vietnam

HANOI, Sept 6, 2004 (dpa) – Journalists will not be allowed to attend workshops at an Asia-Europe (ASEM) Peoples Forum set to begin in Hanoi, due to unexpected delegate demand, an organizer said Monday. The number of people registered has gone beyond expectations, said Ho Anh Dung from …

Out of sight, out of mind : Vietnamese civil society is excluded from the ASEM 5 People’s Forum in Hanoi

Civil society representatives from Europe and Asia are gathering in Hanoi from 6-9 September 2004 for the Fifth Asia Europe (ASEM) People’s Forum to examine the challenges facing the ASEM process and make recommendations to the official ASEM Summit to be held in Hanoi on 8-9 October 2004. The official …

In preparation for the VCP Central Committee’s 10th Plenum in July : High-ranking Communist Party veteran denounces excessive powers of Hanoi’s military intelligence and reveals schisms within the Party leadership

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has obtained a copy of a letter sent by a high-ranking military veteran to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) leadership which sheds new light on the inner workings of the VCP’s military intelligence services, and exposes deep schisms within the leadership of the VCP. …