Vietnam: Show Rights Commitment at Australia Talks-hrw.org, August 1, 2016 (Sydney) – Australia should press for significant and solid improvement during its 13th human rights dialogue with Vietnam, Human Rights Watch said today. Vietnam should show its commitment to reforms by immediately releasing all political prisoners and detainees, ending harassment and violence against rights activists, respecting freedom of religion, curbing police […]
Vietnam Activist Kidnapped While Cycling in Hanoi Streets-By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 31, 2016 Nguyen Van Dien, a Vietnamese pro-democracy activist and environmentalist, has reportedly been disappeared while cycling together with other environmentalists on the streets in central Hanoi, social networks reported. On the morning of Sunday [July 31], Mr. Dien, 35, and nearly ten other activists rallied in Hanoi’s center. They […]
Vietnam Plays the Blame Game Over the Fish Kill Disaster-RFA | Jul 26, 2016 The owners of the Formosa Ha Tinh steel mill have accepted responsibility for a chemical spill that devastated the fishing industry along Vietnam’s central coast, but questions still remain over how the Taiwan firm’s industrial project and its faulty pollution controls won government approval. Vietnamese lawmaker Vo Kim Cu, a key […]
World Bank: Human Rights All But Absent in New Policy-HRW | Jul 21, 2016 (Washington, DC) – The World Bank has refused to acknowledge its human rights obligations in its new policy framework, Human Rights Watch said today. The bank’s third, and most likely final, draft of its new environmental and social framework, published on July 20, 2016, does not require the bank to […]
Vietnam Top Legislator Criticizes Activists for Voicing against China’s Violations-by Vu Quoc Ngu, July 26, 2016 Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who on July 22 took oath as chairwoman of Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly for the second time within three months, has criticized local activists for expressing their concerns about China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea), […]
HCM City-based Environmentalist Tortured in Police Station for Filming, His Mouth Sealed with Tape-By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 27, 2016 Nguyen Phuong, an environmental activist in Ho Chi Minh City was held for hours and tortured in a police station in Phu Xuan commune, Nha Be district on July 18 after filming the facility, according to local social networks. According to Tin Mung Cho Nguoi Ngheo news website, […]
South China Sea: Australia in three-way rebuke of China-SMH | Jul 26, 2016 Beijing: The Australian government has issued a strong joint statement with the United States and Japan calling on China to abide by a Hague tribunal’s ruling on the South China Sea. The three countries issued the statement late on Monday at the conclusion of the trilateral strategic dialogue held between Foreign […]
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