Oral Statement by Penelope Faulkner, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR)United Nations’ Human Rights Committee Palais Wilson, Geneva, 7 July 2025 Mr. President, Distinguished Experts, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today. The human rights situation in Vietnam is changing rapidly – and for …
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GENEVA, 7 July 2025 (VCHR): As the UN Human Rights Committee meets to examine the fourth periodic report of Vietnam on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) at its 144th Session in Geneva, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and FIDH (International Federation for …
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PARIS, 27 May 2025 (VCHR) – On 26 May 2025, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a Joint Shadow Report ahead of the review of Vietnam’s fourth periodic report on its implementation of the UN International Covenant on Civil and …
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GENEVA, 28 January 2019 (VCHR) – Vietnam failed to address serious human rights concerns raised by UN member states at its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva and provided misleading information to the international community, said the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) today. At Vietnam’s third UPR on …
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PARIS, 15th November 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) welcomes the resolution adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg today on “Vietnam, notably the situation of political prisoners”. The resolution was tabled jointly by six major political parties from across the political spectrum [i]. The …
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Download the report (PDF) here PDF See: VCHR, 28/2/2018: “Shrinking Spaces”: New VCHR Report denounces concerted assault on fundamental freedoms in Vietnam
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Download the report (PDF) here PARIS, 28th February 2018 (VCHR) – In a new report entitled “Shrinking Spaces: Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam during the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review”, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) documents one of the worst crack-downs in …
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Radio Free Asia – 2017-10-25 Vietnamese democracy advocate and blogger Phan Kim Khanh was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison by a court in northeastern Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen province on charges of spreading “propaganda against the state” in a trial rights groups described as “unfair.” Khanh, …
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PARIS, 25th October 2017 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) strongly protests Vietnam’s systematic crackdown on the fundamental rights of citizens to freedom of expression, association, religion or belief and the right to participate in public affairs on the pretext of protecting “national security”. Today’s sentencing …
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