Hanoi: 1000 police suppressed Duong Noi farmers and kidnapped Mrs. Cấn Thị Thêu-CTV Danlambao | April 25, 2014 Translated by Danlambao’s reader – In the early hours of April 25, 2014, the authorities mobilized forces up to 1000 troops to start operation of land confiscation and suppression of farmers who were trying to keep their land in Duong Noi (Ha Dong District, Hanoi). From early morning, the entire stretch […]
Assistant Secretary Malinowski on Stemming the Tide of Media Repression-Humanrights.gov | 26/04/2014 Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Tom Malinowski U.S. Mission to the United Nations – New York, N.Y. As Prepared for Delivery Thank you to Ambassador Power, Ambassador Power summed up our purpose well: She said that we are here to affirm the right to pursue truth. The pursuit of […]
Vietnam: EP resolution on Vietnam Free Trade Agreement is a victory for human rights-FIDH | 18 April 2014 On 17 April 2014, the EP adopted a resolution on the state of play of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA) marking an important step towards strengthening human rights protection. FIDH and its member organisation, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) advocated intensively for the inclusion of human rights safeguards in […]
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 […]
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