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 […]
UN to outlaw corporations’ human rights abuses-Lucia Ortiz | The Ecologist 1st July 2014 [pullquote]A new case of corporate violence against environmental rights defenders and violations of their rights is reported to FOEI on average once a week.[/pullquote] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva has voted to start elaborating an international legally binding instrumentto regulate the activities of Transnational […]
EU – Vietnam free trade talks: politics and timing cloud prospects for early conclusion-By Rory Cahill, borderlex.eu | 30 June, 2014 Vietnam and the EU are hopeful that a free trade agreement between them can be concluded by October this year. But signing the deal could be the easy part, getting the new European Parliament to agree remains a far greater challenge. The European Union (EU) expects to sign […]
VIETNAM: Blogger Truong Duy Nhat’s two-year prison sentence upheld-FIDH | 30 June 2014 On June 26, 2014, the Supreme People’s Court in Danang, Central Vietnam, upheld a two-year prison sentence against prominent blogger Truong Duy Nhat for publishing online articles critical of the Government on his blog “A Different Point of View”. On March 4, 2014, Truong Duy Nhat had been sentenced by a court in […]
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