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  • 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 […]
  • Vietnamese Dissidents Attacked by Police-Linked Thugs - Reported by Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. 2013-04-09. Unidentified assailants believed to be connected to the police on Tuesday ambushed and severely beat a Vietnamese dissident a day after he tried to shield a prominent woman land rights activist from harassment and attack by suspected government agents, according […]
  • Vietnam Crony Communists Resist Constitution Backlash - On April 08, 2013 – While filming a documentary about Ho Chi Minh as his compatriots battled U.S. forces in the 1960s, Tran Van Tan observed how the Communist leader’s embrace of a simple lifestyle endeared him to Vietnam’s poor. Five decades later, Tan says the Communist Party’s leaders are more concerned with enriching themselves […]
  • Vietnamese Folk Hero Gets Five-Year Sentence - April 5, 2013, 12:57 p.m. ET – By JAMES HOOKWAY And NGUYEN ANH THU HAIPHONG, Vietnam – Two Vietnamese fish farmers who laid mines and fired homemade guns at police attempting to evict them were convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Friday in a case that has cast a spotlight on the contentious issue […]
  • Buddhist blogger Huynh Ngoc Tuan and family subjected to harassment - 2013-04-06 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 6 April 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Prominent Buddhist blogger and writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan informs the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights(VCHR) that on 3 April 2013, he was the victim of harassment by unknown men, presumably hired hands of the local security forces. At midnight, he suddenly heard a […]