VCHR Reports & Publications

New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam

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

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 …

A History of Violence: Repression of the right to freedom of assembly in Vietnam

June 20, 2023 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

Download the report (PDF) here See: Vietnam: Repression of peaceful demonstrations revealed, VCHR, 20 June 2023

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

July 18, 2022 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 …

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 …

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

November 7, 2018 Press Release, Resources, VCHR, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

  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 …

FIDH & VCHR Joint submission for Vietnam’s third UPR

July 12, 2018 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

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

April 30, 2018 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

  Download the report (PDF) here   PDF    

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

February 28, 2018 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

  Download the report (PDF) here   PDF     See: VCHR, 28/2/2018: “Shrinking Spaces”: New VCHR Report denounces concerted assault on fundamental freedoms in Vietnam    

VCHR: The Death Penalty in Vietnam 2016

June 21, 2016 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

Report compiled for the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty Oslo, June 21-23 2016:     See: Capital Punishment in Vietnam condemned at the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo (VCHR, 21 June 2016)  

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

February 18, 2016 Resources, VCHR Reports & Publications 0

The VCHR report “Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vietnam: State Management of Religions.” analyses the new draft Law as well as other religious legislation in Vietnam, and demonstrates that they are designed to impose state control and turn religions into tools of the Communist Party. Religious communities refusing to …