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  • Vietnam Bars Bloggers From Attending U.S. Congressional Briefing - RFA | 2014-04-25 Among them was Pham Chi Dung, whose passport has not been returned to him nearly three months after it was seized by Vietnamese authorities who prevented him from traveling to Geneva to attend a meeting on the margins of a U.N. Human Rights Council conference examining Vietnam’s human rights record. “The continued […]
  • Viet Nam – lift retaliatory travel restrictions on human rights defender - ICJ | April 25, 2014 Representatives Loretta Sanchez and Zoe Lofgren have invited Pham Chi Dung to testify before the US. Congress about media freedom on 29 April 2014. He’s also scheduled to speak at a seminar of non-governmental organizations in Washington D.C. on 1 May 2014 called “Towards a Free Media in Viet Nam.” However, […]
  • European Parliament resolution on the state of play of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement - The European Parliament | Apr 11, 2014 –       having regard to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, –       having regard to the Ministerial Declaration of the Fourth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, adopted on […]
  • Pacific Trade Stall-Foreigners won’t budge if Obama won’t press Democrats in Congress. - WSJ ASIA |  April 23, 2014 Can President Obama salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership on his trip to Asia this week? The American leader has made the multilateral trade deal a centerpiece of his Asia strategy, yet negotiations are stalling at the hands of a growing coalition of the unwilling. The pact would unite 12 economies around […]
  • Buddhist Youth Leader Le Cong Cau writes to Hanoi leadership protesting arbitrary house arrest - For immediate release Paris, 22 April 2014 Buddhist Youth Leader Le Cong Cau writes to Hanoi leadership protesting arbitrary house arrest http://pttpgqt.net/2014/04/22/buddhist-youth-leader-le-cong-cau-writes-to-hanoi-leadership-protesting-arbitrary-house-arrest PARIS, 22.04.2014 (IBIB) – Le Cong Cau, leader of the Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia đình Phật tử Việt Nam) and Secretary-general of the Executive Institute of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has written a […]
  • How the Vietnamese Government is Using Its Political Prisoners to Gain Leverage - BY LEILA CHACKO Amnesty International USA April 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM In the past couple of weeks, Viet Nam has released 3 prominent prisoners of conscience: Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi and Cu Huy Ha Vu. The release of the 3 prisoners seems, at first glance, to be a step in the right direction for […]
  • TWO MEMBERS OF VIETNAMESE WOMEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ARRESTED - Tell The World Translation by[rollinglinks]Chan Minh[/rollinglinks] Defend The Defenders By VNWHR | Apr 24, 2014 On April 22, 2014, around 11:35AM, as they came out of an Appelate Courtroom,  two representatives of  the Vietnamese Women for Human Rights (VNWHR) organization,  Mrs. Tran Thi Hai and Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Lua, were surrounded by dozens of policemen who […]
  • EU-Vietnam FTA: GUE, Greens, and civil society obtain partial but important victory for human rights - FIDH | 23 April 2014 The resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 17 April 2014 on the state of play of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is an important step towards strengthening human rights protection, FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. Despite the opposition of the PPE, but […]
  • Report on Violations of Freedom of Religion by the Government of Vietnam for First Quarter of 2014 - VRNs (April 24th, 2014) – Saigon by An THANH — COMMITTEE TO PROTECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION Report on Violations of Freedom of Religion by the Government of Vietnam Report Numbered 01/2014 for First Quarter of 2014 Article 24 of the 2013 Version of Vietnamese Constitution, which was approved by Congress on November 28th, 2013 and became effective on […]
  • Apr 14 – Apr 20, 2014 Defenders’ Weekly: Police used violence against “human rights café” - ********April 14th, 2014 ********** Vietnamese Women for Human Rights (VNWHR) visited many families of the prisoners of conscience in the southwestern provinces Last week VNWHR paid a visit offering gifts to the families of prisoners of conscience in Southwestern region. The meaningful trip has proved mutual assistance and necessary connections among Vietnamese dissidents in the […]