August 6, 2015

PRESS RELEASE: UN Treaty Body Calls on Vietnam to Protect Female HRDs, to Empower Civil Society, and to Address Land Grabbing from Rural Women

by • Huynh Thuc Vy, Le Thi Cham, Tran Thi Hai

VNWHR | Aug 8, 2015 The same day the Vietnamese government defended its progress on women’s rights, Ms. Le Thi Cham was run over by a bulldozer and nearly crushed to death. She was partaking in a protest on land grabbing, a problem which disproportionately hurts rural women in Vietnam. The incident, poignant in its […]