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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

3 weeks ago Latest posts, News, Press Release, Resources, VCHR, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

In a joint submission made to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (CCPR) today, FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) regret that the Vietnamese government failed to take any steps towards the implementation of key recommendations made by the CCPR, after the review of the situation …

Vietnam: Party Congress cements repressive rule, rewards rights-abusive leaders

February 1, 2021 Latest posts, News, Others, Press Release, Resources, VCHR 0

PARIS, 1 February 2021 (FIDH & VCHR) – The meeting of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) cements authoritarian rule and ushers in five more years of repression and human rights abuses, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. The CPV’s 13th National Congress, …

The impact of new technologies on human rights: 22nd EU NGO Human Rights Forum

January 22, 2021 Documents, Latest posts, News, Others, Resources 0

FIDH – 22 January 2021 – Each year, the European Union and civil society jointly organise a forum on human rights around the world. FIDH, as one of the organisers of the 2020 edition, welcomes the 22nd annual forum’s exploration of one of the greatest challenges of our times: ensuring …

Message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the passing of Patriarch Thich Quang Do

March 2, 2020 Latest posts, News, Others, Press Release, Resources, VCHR 0

Lamenting the Passing Away of Patriarch Thich Quang Do | March 1, 2020 | Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Upon being informed of the passing away in Vietnam of the Fifth Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, Thich Quang Do, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote …

EU-Vietnam Free trade agreement (FTA) & Investment protection agreement (IPA) : Art 21TUE

December 3, 2019 Opinions, Resources 0

Issues at stake Lack of Ex-ante human rights impact assessment – lack of guaranties regarding ex-post assessmentOne of the weaker TSD Chapter compared to other agreementslack of human rights guarantees 1. Lack of ex ante Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) The Ombudsman, in February 2016, concluded that the refusal of …

Human Rights and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement – Remarks by Penelope Faulkner, Quê Me: Vietnam Committee on Human Rights

December 3, 2019 Latest posts, News, Opinions, Press Release, Resources, VCHR 0

3rd December 2019, European Parliament, Brussels, Room A5G315 May I extend warm thanks to MEP Julie Ward for hosting this meeting, and to all those attending. I would like first to apologise for Vo Van Ai, President of VCHR, who is unable to speak here today due to ill health. …

Vietnam: Arbitrary detention of journalist Pham Chi Dung

November 22, 2019 Latest posts, News, Others, Press Release, VCHR 0

URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY VNM 003 / 1119 / OBS 097 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment/ Obstacle to freedom of expression Vietnam November 22, 2019 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention …

Vietnam: Government refuses to make key commitments during UN rights review

July 2, 2019 Latest posts, News, Others, Press Release, VCHR 0

GENEVA, PARIS, 2 July 2019 (FIDH & VCHR) – Vietnam’s government refused to make commitments to address key human rights concerns raised by United Nations (UN) member states during the country’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. “As …

Joint NGO letter calls for release of Nguyen Bac Truyen

April 15, 2019 Latest posts, News, Others, Press Release, Resources, VCHR 0

RE: Civil society organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Nguyễn Bắc Truyển Dear High Representative/Vice President Mogherini,CC: Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, First-Vice President Frans Timmermans We are writing to express our deep concern about the arrest and sentencing of legal expert and human rights defender Nguyễn …

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

March 11, 2019 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

See:– VCHR denounces gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body (11 March 2019) (French, Vietnamese)– Oral Statement by Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) before the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee (Palais Wilson, Geneva, 11 March …