Gallery: Seven women free expression champions-Last year for the International Day to End Impunity, IFEX profiled 23 individuals who had been threatened, attacked or worse for expressing themselves. In all cases, the perpetrators remain free. We asked some of the women profiled about the challenges they face, advice for other women in their fields, and the kind of world they […]
Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh đoạt Giải Công dân Mạng 2013-Trà Mi-VOA – 08.03.2013 Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh của Việt Nam được nhận Giải Công dân Mạng 2013 do Tổ chức Phóng viên Không biên giới RSF phối hợp với đại công ty internet Google vinh danh. Bà Lucie Morillon Giám đốc phụ trách lĩnh vực truyền thông mới thuộc tổ chức RSF, loan báo […]
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS AWARDS VIETNAMESE BLOGGER HUYNH NGOC CHENH-RSF – PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2013. Reporters Without Borders, with support from Google, Thursday awarded its Netizen of the Year 2013 award to Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Reporters Without Borders chose the nominees and more than 40,000 Internet users visited the YouTube site from around the world. They selected the winner on Reporters’ […]
Vietnam Allows Visit by Amnesty International-By GERRY MULLANY – Published: March 6, 2013 HONG KONG — The Vietnamese government has opened a dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing the human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government officials in the first such contacts since the end of the Vietnam War, Amnesty said Wednesday. The dialogue comes as Vietnam begins drafting a constitution that […]
2013 International Women of Courage Award Winners-Office of Global Women’s Issues March 4, 2013 Ta Phong Tan, Blogger Vietnam Ta Phong Tan, a ground-breaking blogger currently serving a 10 year prison sentence with two additional years of house arrest. Ms. Tan is a former Vietnamese Communist Party member and former officer in the Vietnamese security forces. After publishing online articles criticizing […]
Declaration of Free Citizens-We, the undersigned, call upon our fellow citizens to join us in declaring: 1. We not only want to abolish Article 4 in the Constitution, but also to have a Constitutional Congress to establish a new constitution that truly reflects the will of our people, not the will of the communist party as currently in the […]
Blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh is nominated for the Netizen prize 2013-One of Vietnam’s most influential bloggers, Huynh Ngoc Chenh does not hesitate to criticize the government and defend freedom of expression. Born in 1952 in the central province of Da Nang, Chenh joined the newspaper Thanh Nien in 1992, first as a reporter and then in senior positions until his retirement in April 2012. He […]
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