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  • STATE DEPT. BRIEFING ON COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES - US | February 27, 2014 State Department acting Assistant Secretary Uzra Zeya briefs reporters in Washington on the 2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson ON-THE-RECORD BRIEFING Acting Assistant Secretary Uzra Zeya on the Country Reports on Human Rights February 27, 2014 Washington, D.C. ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY […]
  • U.S. rights report highlights China, Myanmar reforms, abuses - BY DAVID BRUNNSTROM |  Feb 27, 2014 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department noted some positive reforms in Myanmar and China and other parts of Asia in its annual human rights report released on Thursday but said that serious abuses and severe restrictions on basic freedoms persisted. The report for 2013 said that despite some progress in Myanmar, conflict-related abuses in ethnic minority […]
  • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor : Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 – Viet Nam - U.S.Department Of State | Feb 27,2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is an authoritarian state ruled by a single party, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), led by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, and President Truong Tan Sang. The most recent National Assembly elections, held in 2011, were neither […]
  • Vietnam Dissident Beaten Ahead of Diplomat Meeting - By CHRIS BRUMMITT .  Associated Press | February 26, 2014 (AP) A Vietnamese dissident said Wednesday that suspected government agents assaulted him and his wife this week as they were heading to a meeting with an Australian diplomat to talk about the human rights situation in the country. While harassment and intimidation of activists are common […]
  • European Parliament: Question for written answer to the Commission (Vice-President/High Representative) about Human Rights Violations in Vietnam - European Parliament – On 31 January 2014 Human Rights Watch reported that Vietnam has failed to adhere to its commitments to improve its human rights record. The organisation reports that in the last few years the Vietnamese government has continued to systematically violate rights in areas such as freedom of expression, association, assembly and religion, as well as labour […]
  • Dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen is brutally beaten by Police - VIETNAM COMMITTEE – PARIS, 26 February 2014  The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights(VCHR) is deeply shocked by reports that dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen and his wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong were brutally beaten by Police as they made their way to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on Monday 24 February. They were invited by the Embassy to report on prior […]
  • Vietnamese Blogger to Stand Trial on ‘Abusing’ Freedom Charges - RFA – 2014-02-25 A prominent Vietnamese blogger arrested nine months ago after he published articles critical of the government will face trial next week on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms,” according to an official indictment his family received Tuesday. Truong Duy Nhat, 50, was taken into custody on May 26 after police searched his home […]
  • Viet Nam: Dinh Dang Dinh’s prison sentence suspended for 12 months - OMCT – Paris-Geneva, February 25, 2014.  The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), welcome the decision of the Vietnamese authorities to temporarily suspend the prison sentence of human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh, who suffers from a terminal stomach cancer. Dinh Dang […]
  • Vietnam: Second attack on human rights defender Mr Nguyen Bac Truyen - Posted 2014/2/25 | Front Line Defenders On 24 February 2014, at approximately 2:30pm, human rights defender Mr Nguyen Bac Truyen, along with his wife, was attacked by undercover policemen as they made their way to the Australian embassy in Hanoi. This is the second serious attack against the human rights defender this month. Nguyen Bac Truyen […]
  • New Constitution clarifies human and citizen rights - VNA/VietnamPlus – 24 Feb, 2014 Vietnam’s viewpoint on the recognition, respect, protection and guarantee of human rights as well as the fundamental rights and obligations of citizens has been firmly clarified in the amended Constitution, which was passed by almost all of legislators in November last year and was enforced on the first day of […]