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  • Viet Nam: Appeal of prominent blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan forthcoming - Update #1 to RAN 32/13 7 February 2014 PEN International calls upon its members to send renewed letters of appeal calling for the immediate and unconditional release of blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, whose appeal is due to be heard on 18 February 2014. Le Quoc Quan was sentenced to 30 months […]
  • Việt Nam hãy thôi lừa bịp thế giới về thành tích nhân quyền - Trà Mi-VOA, 07.02.2014 Một tổ chức bảo vệ nhân quyền có uy tín trên thế giới đề nghị Việt Nam chớ nên tiếp tục lừa bịp và phớt lờ các quan tâm của quốc tế về lĩnh vực nhân quyền trong thời đại thông tin kỹ thuật số. Phản hồi về buổi Kiểm điểm nhân quyền […]
  • U.S. Department of State: UPR 18th Session – Intervention for Vietnam - Geneva, Switzerland, Feb 5, 2014 AS DELIVERED by Peter Mulrean, Deputy Permanent Representative, U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva. The United States thanks the Vietnamese delegation for its presentation. We welcome Vietnam’s signature of the Convention Against Torture, progress on protecting rights of LGBT persons, and increased church registrations. However, Vietnam still harasses and detains […]
  • West denounces repression of bloggers, religions in Vietnam - BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY | Reuters GENEVA Wed Feb 5, 2014 7:46pm GMT (Reuters) – Western countries on Wednesday denounced Vietnam’s jailing of bloggers and curbs on the Internet and called on its Communist government to respect basic freedoms of worship and expression. Britain’s diplomat Ruth Tumer told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council that her country regretted “recent […]
  • UN and US Must Press for Change in Vietnam - Posted: 02/05/2014 12:52 pm EST | Huffingtonpost By Shawn W. Crispin/CPJ Southeast Asia Representative As Vietnam’s human rights record goes before a United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) today, Hanoi’s official delegation is necessarily on the diplomatic defensive. As with past presentations to the global body, Vietnamese officials will aim to distract attention from their suppressive […]
  • UN Human Rights Council urged to address deteriorating situation in Vietnam - 5 February 2014 ARTICLE 19 , PEN International  The following statement was issued on 4 February 2014, in advance of Viet Nam’s UPR process in Geneva.ARTICLE 19 and PEN International will urge the international community to address the increasingly severe crackdown on free speech in Viet Nam 4-5 February at the United Nations in Geneva. Rather than improving, the […]
  • ACCESS NOW: Vietnam under review at the Human Rights Council: Cyber attacks on civil society a key concern - 7:35pm | 4 February 2014 | by Deborah Brown, English Jon Fox contributed to this blog post. Amidst reports of declining human rights at home, Vietnam will appear before the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday for a review of its human rights record. Access, as part of a coalition of freedom of expression organizations, is urging […]
  • Government of Canada: Statement on Human Rights Situation in Vietnam - February 4, 2014 – The Honourable Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for International Human Rights, today issued the following statement: “Canada welcomes progress made by Vietnam in recent years in areas such as economic growth and development. However, concerns remain—notably with regard to the civil, political and human rights situation […]
  • Viet Nam: four years of deteriorating human rights - Posted February 4th, 2014 by English PEN staff In 2013, English PEN launched a campaign for greater freedom of expression in Viet Nam. As part of the campaign, we joined a coalition of NGOs to submit a shadow report to the UNHRC. Today, colleagues from the coalition, PEN International and ARTICLE 19, are in Geneva to urge the international community to take […]
  • Viet Nam faces harsh rights critics in Geneva - February 4, 2014 by Ellen Wallace GenevaLunch.com UNHRC hearing comes as diplomat seeks asylum GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Viet Nam will face harsh criticism in its UPR, Universal Periodic Review, Wednesday 5 February at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The review takes place just after a weekend interview by a Geneva TV station of a […]