RECLAIMING THE ASEAN COMMUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE – CSO STATEMENT-Aseanpeople | Jan 24, 2015 1. PREAMBLE 1.1 This ASEAN Civil Society Conference and ASEAN People’s Forum marks the 10th anniversary since the first regional gathering of civil society in Malaysia. We, the civil society in Southeast Asia[1], welcome the commitment of ASEAN in the years since to establish a people-centric ASEAN and a peaceful, […]
Vietnam Reviews 102 Criminal Cases, Finding 13 Judicial Miscarriages in 2014-By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 22, 2015 The Vietnamese Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuracy and Ministry of Public Security jointly reviewed 102 life sentences and death sentences in 2014 and found 13 cases of miscarriage of justice, state media reported. They found legal procedure violations in three other cases, the Phap Luat & […]
Vietnam Continues to Suppress Activists, Showing No Progress in Human Rights- By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 22, 2015 Vietnam has showed no progress in human rights protection as local authorities continue to hire mobs to attack religious clerks and social activists, said Hanoi-based observers. Last Sunday afternoon, Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang and his assistant were beaten by unknown assailants near Ho Chi Minh […]
Vietnamese Activists Allege Police Brutality After Visiting Dissident-VOA | Jan 21, 2015 Thirteen Vietnamese social activists say they were attacked by police and taken into custody after visiting recently freed dissident Tran Anh Kim. One activist, 80-year-old Nguyen Thanh Giang, tells VOA’s Vietnamese service the incident in northern Thai Binh province highlights an alarming trend of police brutality. “The reason of the […]
Vietnamese Pastor Brutally Beaten, Hospitalized-CBN | Jan 21, 2015 Urgent prayer is needed for Vietnamese Mennonite Pastor Quang. He and an associate pastor were brutally beaten last Sunday afternoon by unknown assailants near their Bible college in Ho Chi Minh City. According to VOM Australia, both pastors were attacked “without provocation” by five men who used “bricks and rocks […]
Thư Kêu gọi đồng hành lên án vi phạm nhân quyền 2014 tại VN-FVPOC | Cập nhật 21/01/2015 Kính gửi: Quý Tổ chức xã hội dân sự trong và ngoài nước Kính thưa Quí Vị! Sau khi giành được ghế trong Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc nhà cầm quyền Hà Nội vẫn tiếp tục vi phạm […]
EU Must Pressure Vietnam on Human Rights During Upcoming Dialogue-Freeforallblog | Jan 16, 2015 The European Union (EU) should use upcoming talks with Vietnam to demand that Hanoi urgently address serious human rights violations, rights groups said Friday. TheInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) made the call ahead of the fifth EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, which is […]
EU, Vietnam discuss human rights-Praguepost | Jan 20, 2015 In Brussels on Jan. 19, the European Union and Vietnam held the fourth round of their annual enhanced Dialogue on Human Rights in the spirit of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) signed in June 2012. The EU delegation was led by Ugo Astuto, director for South and South […]
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