April 28, 2015
Vietnamese Women for Human Rights’ Statement regarding the suppression of the march on April 26th, 2015
VNWHR | Apr 26, 2015 To Whom This May Concern, Recently Hanoi authorities ordered the felling of 6,700 valuable mature trees to be replaced with saplings with much less value. The public opinion is that Hanoi government did so because they wanted to share the spoils from the tree felling operation, as they could no […]
August 6, 2015
PRESS RELEASE: UN Treaty Body Calls on Vietnam to Protect Female HRDs, to Empower Civil Society, and to Address Land Grabbing from Rural Women
by Nhan Quyen • Huynh Thuc Vy, Le Thi Cham, Tran Thi Hai
VNWHR | Aug 8, 2015 The same day the Vietnamese government defended its progress on women’s rights, Ms. Le Thi Cham was run over by a bulldozer and nearly crushed to death. She was partaking in a protest on land grabbing, a problem which disproportionately hurts rural women in Vietnam. The incident, poignant in its […]