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  • PRESS RELEASE: UN Treaty Body Calls on Vietnam to Protect Female HRDs, to Empower Civil Society, and to Address Land Grabbing from Rural Women - 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 […]
  • U.S. Senator Urges Kerry to Pressure Vietnam on Human Rights - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 6, 2015 U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy has asked Secretary of State John Kerry to pressure Vietnam on human rights issue and demand the communist government in Hanoi to release Bui Thi Minh Hang, an imprisoned land rights and religious activist on fabricated allegation. Secretary Kerry should demand Hanoi to have […]
  • HCM City Activists Barred from Taking Dinner with U.S. Senior Diplomats - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 6, 2015 Security forces in Ho Chi Minh City on Aug 5 blocked a number of local activists from taking a dinner with senior U.S.’s diplomats, social network has reported. Policemen and plainclothes agents blocked private houses of many democracy advocates and human rights campaigners, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, […]
  • Two Christians arrested for “anti-government activities” released after 4 years in prison - Asia News | Aug 5, 2015 The Vietnamese authorities have released two Christian activists after having served the full term of the sentence imposed on them in trial. The are the well-known Catholic blogger Paulus Le Van Son, and the Protestant leader Nguyen Van Oai, at the forefront in the defense of social rights. The […]
  • Vietnam Urged to Shorten Temporary Detention Period to Prevent Torture - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 05, 2015 Vietnam should shorten the period of temporary detention of criminal suspects in a bid to prevent torture, said Scott Ciment, policy advisor on Rule of Law, Access to Justice and Civil Society at UN Development Program Vietnam. Speaking at a workshop co-organized by the Legal Committee of Vietnam’s […]
  • TNS. Bill Cassidy “kết nghĩa” với TNLT Bùi Thị Minh Hằng - Mạch sống |04-08-2015 Đẩy mạnh chiến dịch “Tự Do cho Tù Nhân Lương Tâm Việt Nam”   Sáng nay TNS. Bill Cassidy (Cộng Hoà, Louisiana) gọi điện thoại cho Bà Cụ Thịnh Nguyễn, 90 tuổi và là cư dân Atlanta, để báo là Ông chính thức “kết nghĩa” với người con gái nuôi của bà […]
  • Vietnam Releases Two Jailed Activists With Ties to Religious Groups - RFA | Aug 3, 2015 Vietnamese authorities on Monday released two activists who finished serving jail terms they had received under a vague and ill-defined statute used by authorities to routinely crack down on those who are critical of the one-party communist state. Paulus Le Van Son, a prominent Catholic blogger, and Nguyen Van Oai, […]
  • Hanoi Resident Dies on Third Day in Police Detention -   By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 4, 2015 A resident in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi died in a local police detention facility on the third day of being arrested on an allegation of conducting activities against on-duty state officials, state media reported Tuesday. Nguyen Quang Truong, 43, from Du Nghe in Quoc Oai […]
  • Joint Statement of Independent Civil Society Organizations (CSOs): Regarding the Vietnamese Government’s Draft Law on Associations - CSOs | August 2nd, 2015. This joint statement was prepared by the CSOs listed below, the same CSOs that the Vietnamese government has prevented from operating legally through the denial of their registration applications. I. First, we acknowledge that national laws’ clarity, completeness, and quality, and the capability for just and fair enforcement without favoring any […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly July 27- Aug 02: Defend the Defenders Marks 3rd Annniversary - Defenders’ Weekly | Aug 02, 2015 ******************** 25/07/2015*********************** Defend the Defenders Provides Drinking Water for Hanoi-based Activists in World Hunger Strike Day Defend the Defenders provided VND2 million for Hanoi-based activists to help them buy drinking water for the World Hunger Strike Day on July 25. The massive fasting aims to request the communist government […]