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  • How (Not) to Become a U.S. Ambassador - posted by Greg Rushford –  on April 15, 2013 There are two paths that aspiring American ambassadors traditionally take to persuade the president of the United States to nominate them for that honor. First, there is the classic, merit-based path where senior U.S. foreign service officers with distinguished diplomatic backgrounds are quietly-and-carefully vetted in the higher […]
  • Vietnam: Update – Upcoming appeal trial of eight detained human rights defenders - Posted 2013/4/15 – On 24 April 2013 at 7.30am, the appeal trial of Messrs Ho Duc Hoa, Thai Van Dung, Paulus Le Son, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Tran Minh Nhat, Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Ho Van Oanh and Nguyen Van Duyet will start in Vinh city, in the province of Nghe An on the north central Vietnamese coast. The human rights defenders are part of a larger […]
  • European Parliament has chance to take on Vietnam - By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator April 15, 2013 12:28 PM ET – On Thursday, April 18, the European Parliament will discuss Vietnam’s human rights in a plenary session. At the top of the agenda will be freedom of expression. Over the weekend, CPJ’s Brussels-based Senior Adviser Jean-Paul Marthoz blogged about the issues the parliament must confront in Le […]
  • US upset Vietnam dissidents blocked from meeting - Patrick Ventrell – Acting Deputy Spokesperson Daily Press Briefing, Washington, DC – April 15, 2013 VIETNAM: Human Rights Dialogue / Activists Prevented from Meeting DAS Baer … QUESTION: Vietnam? MR. VENTRELL: Yeah. QUESTION: You had a statement last week about the U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue that took place in Hanoi on Friday. Apparently, two people who were invited […]
  • Costa Rica to host World Press Freedom Day 2013 - 08.02.2013 – UNESCOPRESS – Costa Rica will host the main event, organized by UNESCO for the 2013 celebrations of World Press Freedom Day, from 2 to 4 May. The decision was announced today by the President of Republic of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla, who stressed her country’s commitment to defending freedom of expression and press […]
  • Smith Holds Hearing Highlighting Vietnamese Gov’t Human Rights Violations in Advance of the U.S. Vietnam Dialogue - Human Trafficking, widespread abuse of Buddhists, Montagnards, Christians, Hmong minority focus of Human Rights Watch & other witnesses Washington, Apr 10 – Rep. Chris Smith, Chairman of the House subcommittee on global human rights, held a hearing Thursday, April 11 entitled “Highlighting Vietnamese Government Human Rights Violations in Advance of the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue.” He gave the following […]
  • The State’s Policy of Repression against the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam - Vo Van Ai US Congressional Hearing examines human rights and religious freedom violations against the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam WASHINGTON D.C., 11 April 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of Paris-based Vietnam Committee for Human Rights and International Spokesman of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) called on the United States today to raise issues of […]
  • Vietnam: Proposed Constitutional Amendments Go Against International Law - On  25 Mar 2013 ARTICLE 19 warns that proposed amendments to the 1992 Constitution for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Draft Constitution) fail to protect fundamental human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression and information. Protections for these rights must be formulated more comprehensively and in more precise language, and broad and […]
  • Vietnam: Rights Dialogue Should Produce Concrete Steps - Time for Government to Begin Delivering on Human Rights APRIL 10, 2013 (Washington, DC) – The Vietnamese government should use the opportunity of the upcoming US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue to release political prisoners and make commitments to end the persecution of bloggers, land rights activists, and other peaceful critics, Human Rights Watch said today. The […]
  • Việt Nam: Đối thoại nhân quyền cần tạo ra chuyển biến cụ thể - Bản dịch của Lê Thiên Hà (Defend the Defenders) Đã đến lúc chính phủ bắt tay vào việc thực thi quyền con người (Washington, DC) APRIL 10, 2013 – Tổ chức giám sát nhân quyền Human Rights Watch (HRW) phát biểu ngày hôm nay là Chính phủ Việt Nam cần nhân cơ hội cuộc Đối thoại […]