Democratic Voice of Vietnam

Bringing the voice of Vietnam’s civil society to the world

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Category: Civil Society

  • Civil Society Demands Transparency and Consultation on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    Media advisory   8th April 2012 In a joint statement released today, over 100 civil society organizations and networks across the ASEAN region have called for the release of the draft ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and the initiation of meaningful public consultations on its content. The Declaration is being drafted by the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission…

  • AICHR’s Consultation on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Too Little Too Late

    (16 April 2012, Bangkok) The ASEAN human rights Commission appears to plan a one-off, token “consultation” with civil society, and only after it will have finalized, most if not all, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration – this is outrageous and utterly unacceptable, said the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy Task Force on ASEAN and Human…

  • ASEAN’s road to nowhere? Subverting standards within the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    “Significant swathes of the draft focus on limiting rights, rather than promoting and protecting them, with some particularly odious amendments being proposed by persistent human rights abusers Laos and Vietnam.”  By Phil Robertson Publihed in Strategic Review In July, the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Phnom Penh will receive one of the most important documents…

  • Vietnam facing “time bomb” of dissent

    “The US government and rights groups are expressing concern over Vietnam’s crackdown on freedom of expression, as the regime faces growing dissent and labor militancy,” the Democracy Digest of April 18, 2012, reports. Among the more notorious human rights violations in recent days figure the following: A Catholic priest, Nguyen Van Binh of Yen Kien…

  • US Assistant Secretary Posner on Human Rights in Vietnam

    “…the situation in Vietnam for human rights remains discouraging. Government officials repeatedly tell me they seek stability; their actions, however, serve to undermine that goal. Only through affording its citizenry the opportunity to exercise the basic human rights guaranteed in Vietnam’s own constitution and in international norms, can a government be secure. Many in Vietnam…