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  • Chairman Royce Questions Witnesses at Vietnam Hearing – 4 June, 2013 -
  • British Parliamentary Delegation is barred from visiting Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do - INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST INFORMATION BUREAU PARIS, 5 June 2013 (IBIB) – A delegation of Members of Parliament from the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) was barred from visiting the leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) during their trip to Vietnam last week. The delegation was in Vietnam from 25-31 May, visiting Hanoi, […]
  • Message from the EU Ambassador to Vietnam, Franz Jessen - EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION TO VIETNAM | 31 May 2013 | The EU Ambassador to Vietnam, Franz Jessen, expressed today his concerns over the recent arrest and sentencing of a number of activists, bloggers and students to prison terms ranging from 2 to 13 years, followed by several years of house arrest, for acts related to […]
  • If Your Blog Gets Hacked, Can WordPress Help? - By David Brown Global Voices Advocacy 05-06-2013 In March, Vietnamese political news blog Anh Ba Sam underwent a series of attacks that left its content compromised and its owners unable to access the blog’s back end. Attackers took over the site, replacing its articles with their own content and changing passwords for the site’s administrative sections.
  • ICJ highlights the need for protection of lawyers in Viet Nam - May 30, 2013 – Advocacy: Legal submissions The ICJ today addressed the Human Rights Council, and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, concerning the need for protection of lawyers in Viet Nam. [pullquote]The  ICJ recalls that  article  16 of  the UN Basic  Principles  on  the  Role  of  Lawyers  states  that “governments  […]
  • Wolf Remarks At Vietnamese American Meetup - Tuesday June 04, 2013 – Contact: Jill Shatzen (202) 225-5136 WOLF REMARKS AT VIETNAMESE AMERICAN MEETUP Washington, D.C. (June 4, 2013) – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), co-chairman of the Congressional Vietnam Caucus and a leader on the issue of human rights and international religious freedom, today participated in the first-ever House Republican Conference Vietnamese American Meetup in […]
  • Continuing Repression by the Vietnamese Government - Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Hearing of June 4, 2013: Continuing Repression by the Vietnamese Government Testimony of John Sifton Asia Advocacy Director Human Rights Watch Thank you for inviting me to testify in today’s hearing. Today’s date, June 4, is of course a day […]
  • Vietnamese blogger’s site becomes weaponized after his arrest - Curt Hopkins | The Daily Dot | 29.5.2013 | There has been much made in the past couple of years of the death of the Internet and with it the blog. Like many such “futurist” pronouncements, it is based on a very narrow cross-section of the online world and—what do you know?— that cross-section is the U.S. and Western […]
  • Letter calling for help from the family of Dr Cu Huy Ha Vu - Hanoi, 4 June 2013  To the attention of: – The Vietnamese people inside the country and overseas; – The Party and Nation Leaders with conscience –  The patriotic Personalities, Intellectuals, religious Groups and all  classes of citizens     who love Veracity – Justice – Peace; –  All the Organisations inside the country and overseas. My name […]
  • Human Rights Council Must Intervene in Illicit Online Surveillance - Freedom House  | 3.6.2013 | On June 3, 2013, Freedom House made an oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council raising concerns about the rise in states’ surveillance of communications. Freedom House called on the Council to discuss the protection of Internet users’ data and right to privacy during the “interactive dialogue” meeting in the Council’s Geneva Chamber, where […]