The 88 Project: Bringing the silent voices of Vietnam to a larger audience
As a Vietnamese overseas student working on her Ph.D. at Indiana University’s School of Law, Huong Nguyen was focused on ...
Tag: Human Rights
Online Campaign “If not NOW then WHEN?” Seeks To Stop Sexual Abuse In Vietnam
An uncommonly successful online campaign is happening in Vietnam with thousands of signatures and with momentum is still going strong. ...
Sick And Injured Inmates In Vietnam Face Inadequate Medical Treatment, Torture
An inmate who was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage in January 2019 told his family that he did not get ...
Vietnam: State-Owned People’s Army Newspaper Defamed Independent Media, Civil Society Organizations
On March 25, 2019, in what could have been a classic libel case, the online newspaper of the Vietnamese Armed ...
Latest Review Under UN’s Human Rights Treaty Body Highlighted Vietnam’s Dismal Records
“How do you explain or assess that Vietnam is ranked 175 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Sans Frontiers’ ...
EU Officials Raised Concern Over Worrying Human Rights Situation In Vietnam
“The human rights situation in Vietnam is worrying,” according to Commissioner for Trade of the European Union, Cecilia Malmström, after ...
Wife of Arbitrarily Detained Facebooker: He Only Exercised His Constitutional Rights
The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, announced today at a preparatory meeting for the DPRK-US summit in Hanoi ...
EU Parliament’s Members Ask Vietnam To Release Activist Hoang Duc Binh, Reiterate Human Rights Benchmark for EV-FTA
February 1, 2019, a group of nine EU Parliament’s members from different political parties, jointly sent a letter to Vietnam’s ...
Vietnamese Police Faced New Brutality Allegations Amid State’s Obligations To Follow Up UN’s Recommendations Against Torture
Today, January 28, 2019, a driver in Hanoi who was supportive of the movement to fight against illegal BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) ...
Human Rights Peer Review of Vietnam Spotlights Persistent Rights Violations
On 22 January 2019, Vietnam underwent for the third time a comprehensive peer review of its human rights record at ...