INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END IMPUNITY-14 November 2012 – IFEX launches online game for Day to End Impunity campaign Each day from 1 to 23 November, we will reveal an individual who has been threatened, attacked or worse for expressing themselves. In all of the cases, the perpetrators have gone free. Read their stories. Take action. Help end impunity. Nguyen Hoang Vi (Blogger, Vietnam) […]
ASEAN Approves Controversial Human Rights Declaration-Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen, left, with ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan after the ceremony for the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, during the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, November 18, 2012. Irwin Loy. November 18, 2012 PHNOM PENH — Southeast Asian leaders have signed off on a controversial region-wide human rights declaration in what they say […]
Civil society rejects flawed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration-Thursday, 15 November 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Today, 65 grassroots, national, regional, and international civil society groups are calling upon ASEAN Member States to postpone the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, which is not worthy of its name. The organizations vow to reject the Declaration if it is adopted with its current text. […]
ASEAN Human Rights Declaration must not provide protections lower than international human rights law and standards-Thursday, 13 September 2012 – We, the undersigned organizations, who participated at the Civil Society Forum on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, held on 10-11 September 2012 and the consultation meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) with civil society organizations on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), held on 12 September 2012 […]
Free Nguyen Phuong Uyen Now!-Petition by DienDan ChinhTri San Diego, CA 25 October, 2012 Navanethem Pillay Office of the United Nations, High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR 1211 Geneva 10, SWITZERLAND Dear Mrs. Pillay, Re: Appeal for the immediate release of Ms. Nguyen Phuong Uyen whom been detained the last 2 weeks and all other political detainee under Vietnamese government’s laws, the infamous […]
2012 Vietnam Human Rights Award Goes to Three Women Human Rights Activists-Little Saigon (11-02-2012) – At a press conference in Little Saigon today, Vietnam Human Rights Network (VHRN) announced that Ms. Pham Thanh Nghien, Blogger Ta Phong Tan, and Ms. Huynh Thuc Vy are the winners of the Human Rights Award for 2012. They were selected from a list of 24 nominations received from Vietnam and abroad.
VIETNAM: Two songwriters convicted for ‘anti-state propaganda’-RAN 70/12 – 31 October 2012 – The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International is appalled by the sentences handed down to songwriters Vo Minh Tri and Tran Vu Anh Binh who were sentenced to four and six yeas in prison respectively, for conducting ‘anti-state propaganda’ via their critical songs posted on the internet. PEN […]
Imprisonment of musicians a new low for freedom of expression-Paris-Bangkok, 2 November 2012. The trial and harsh sentencing of two musicians on charges of “anti-State propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code is the latest example of Vietnam’s escalating assault on freedom of expression and its blatant violation of international human rights law, said the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its […]
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