DECLARATION TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION OF VIETNAM (IJAVN)-IJAVN | JULY 4, 2014 It is therefore high time for the Vietnamese Press and its citizens-journalists to exercise their independent free will and answer these questions. Then to follow the experiment of the most progressive civil society in the world, thus one of the solutions commands us to establish an Independent Vietnam Journalists Association. * The views […]
Vietnamese mob of hundreds attacked Mennonite meeting, say reports-Henri Rose Cimatu | Thursday, July 03 2014 Ecumenical News More than 300 plain clothes and security forces members stormed the church complex at night, and beat up the residents under the pretext of an “administrative search,” the Catholic Ucan news agency reported June 27. Release International, a Christian advocacy group, said the attack lasted for two hours […]
Ex-Vietnamese Political Prisoner Blames Jail Conditions for HIV Infection-RFA | 2014-07-02 Huynh Anh Tri was released in December last year from Xuan Loc prison camp together with his brother Huynh Anh Tu after they were arrested in 1999 and convicted two years later of “terrorism” with intent to overthrow Hanoi’s one-party, communist government . Tri acknowledged in an interview with RFA’s Vietnamese Service that […]
A thank you letter from Do Thi Minh Hanh’s family-Danlambao | 3/7/2014 June 30, 2014 Respectfully presented to: Political leaders and diplomats of pro-freedom, democracy and human rights nations Organizations and individuals at home and abroad The media Ladies and Gentlemen, Our daughter Do Thi Minh Hanh was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Vietnamese authorities for her activities in protecting the rights […]
CHANGING POWER, CHANGING INTERESTS: FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA – ANALYSIS-Truong-Minh Vu and Nghiem Anh Thao RSIS | Eurasia Review | JULY 2, 2014 IN ALL the official (and also semi-official) documents, American interests and standpoints in the South China Sea disputes can be covered by four main principles: promote regional peace, prosperity, and security; be neutral in the overlapping sovereignty claims; maintain freedom of navigation; and encourage peaceful […]
The trials and tribulations of the 26th session of the UN Human Rights Council-Amelia Cooper | Humanist Life July 3, 2014 ‘State obligations to achieve equality and non discrimination are immediate, and not subject to progressive realisation,’ wrote Maina Kiai, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, a phrase that was to become my basic principle during the 26th Session of the United Nations […]
Vietnamese activist: cellmates gave her strength to endure the torments of prison-Asia News | 07/02/2014 Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) – Do Thi Minh Hanh, a young Vietnamese labour activist, was released from prison on 27 June. She spent four years of a seven-year sentence in prison for demonstrating and distributing leaflets in support of footwear workers on strike for better working conditions and higher wages. During her imprisonment, Hanh […]
Vietnam Former Political Prisoner Says Infected with HIV in Cell-by Vu Quoc Ngu | July 2, 2014 Defend The Defenders Several months after being freed from the cell when his sentence ended in late 2013, Mr. Tri was detected to have been infested with the deathly virus. His health has deteriorated fast as the infection turned into the third phase of AIDS. Mr. Tri, […]
UN Human Rights Council Reaffirms Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Online-EFF | JULY 1, 2014 As we’ve affirmed in the 13 Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, any mass surveillance, including extra-territorially, is inherently disproportionate and a violation of human rights. The resolution addresses this by calling on States to “address security concerns on the Internet in accordance with their international human rights […]
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