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

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 …

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Joint NGO letter calls for release of Nguyen Bac Truyen

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 …

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

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 …

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

  Brussels, 7 November 2018   Dear Ms. Malmström, FIDH and VCHR wish to express their concern over the draft EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement that was made public in late September 2018, which, to our view, fails to provide sufficient human rights safeguards, and as a consequence, puts the EU …

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Does Vietnam have carte blanche for crackdown on dissent?

    Human rights advocates are expressing concern over an intensified crackdown on dissent in Vietnam. Some analysts suggest that the Communist regime is emboldened by perceptions that it is a strategically vital bulwark against China’s sharp power in the region. By making a rare second trip this year to …

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Letter to US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee from the Tammy Tran Law Firm requesting urgent support for UBCV Patriarch Thich Quang Do

Download the Letter (PDF) here     You have always been a dedicated supporter of the Vietnamese American community in Texas since the day my Law Firm has been opened. It has been 21 years and we went through thick and thin together. You have been a strong voice in …

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Vietnam: Arbitrary detention and imminent deportation of Ms. Debbie Stothard

      URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY VNM 002 / 0918 / OBS 112 Arbitrary arrest / Release/ Obstacles to freedom of movement Vietnam September 9, 2018   The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), …

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The Observatory: Viet Nam: Arbitrary detention and sentencing of six members of Brotherhood for Democracy

  URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY VNM 001 / 0418 / OBS 041 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment / Sentence Viet Nam April 9, 2018   PARIS-GENEVA, 9 April 2018 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture …

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