UN: Viet Nam needs inclusive national efforts to ratify Convention against Torture-UNDP Vietnam | 6 June 2014 Ha Noi – “Ratifying and implementing the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment will require a strong interaction between different institutions, including the Police, other public security agencies, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the Supreme People’s Courts, and central and provincial government authorities,” said UN […]
Họp mặt XHDS tháng 6: bàn luận về quyền thành lập hội ôn hòa-PNNQVN | 6/6/2014 Tham gia họp mặt có đại điện các tôn giáo của truyền thông Dòng Chúa Cứu Thế, giáo hội Phật giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất, Phật giáo Hòa Hảo, Tin Lành, Cao Đài cùng các tổ chức XHDS độc lập như Hội CTNLT, Hội PNNQVN, Hội bầu bí tương thân, Bạch Đằng […]
HRW: WORLD REPORT 2014 – Vietnam-HRW | June 4, 2014 World Report 2014 is Human Rights Watch’s 24th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events through November 2013. Reflecting on the “Rights Struggles of 2013,” Executive Director Kenneth Roth highlights the […]
BLOGGING FOR FREEDOM IN VIETNAM-THE NEW YORKER | June 3, 2014 While working on my book about Internet dissent in the Communist and post-Communist world, I interviewed bloggers in China, Cuba, and Russia who, like Quan, wanted to tell stories that did not appear in the state-controlled media. Quan, whose blogging career started in a small shop that repaired […]
LRWC Newsletter: May 2014 Edition-LRWC ACTION NEWS | June 1, 2014 Bahrain Nabeel Rajab, head of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights released after years in jail. Nabeel Rajab was released on 22 May 2014. LRWC received an email from him saying, “thank every one for all the help and support which made me stronger and showed the world that […]
‘Poisonous ideology’: Stephen Harper launches full-throated attack on communism at Toronto fundraiser-Colin Perkel, Canadian Press | May 30, 2014 9:48 PM ET TORONTO In a lengthy key-note speech to the dinner, Harper took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin and past adherents to communism. “During the 20th century, communism’s poisonous ideology and ruthless practices slowly bled into countries around the world, on almost every continent,” Harper […]
Growing concerns over harassment of H’mong people-VNWHR / Translate by Jasmine Tran (Danlambao) The authorities and security personnel of Tuyen Quang district had arranged the Appellate Court to be in the police detention centre. Their intention was to furtively prosecute the three religious prisoners, whilst restricting the involvement of supporters and those concerned with the case. Thao Quan Mua, Ly Van Dinh and Duong Van […]
May 26- June 1 Defenders’ Weekly: Vietnam’s authorities suppress prisoners of consciences-Defend the Defenders | 2/6/2014 Defenders’ Weekly **********26/5/2014********** Traffic policemen stopped a bus, allowing mobs to attack clergies of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) At the noon of May 25, a delegation of clergies of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province went to Saigon to attend the […]
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