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Members of Congress Call for the Release of Imprisoned Vietnamese Labor Activists
For Immediate Release February 10, 2014 Contact: Patrick Griffith pgriffith@freedom-now.org +1 (202) 223-3733 Washington, D.C.: Today, eleven members of the House of Representatives joined a public letter to Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang calling for the release of three imprisoned labor rights activists. Among the signatories are Representatives Frank Wolf and James McGovern, the Co-Chairs…
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Mother of jailed Vietnam activist warns on trade pact
Updated: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:48:05 GMT | By Agence France-Presse The mother of a jailed Vietnamese labor activist appealed Thursday for the United States to use a Pacific trade pact as pressure to end what rights groups call widespread violations. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh, mother of jailed Vietnamese activist Do Thi Minh Hanh,…
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Vietnam’s Trade of Underaged Species
October 1, 2013, 10:19 am 2 Comments By LIEN HOANG HO CHI MINH CITY — “It’s basic police work,” said Michael Brosowski describing his activities with the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, a nongovernmental agency that rescues children working in sweatshops in Vietnam. When it learns about a case of child labor, workers for the agency…
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Houston woman worried for sister reportedly held as sex slave in Russia
By Lise Olsen February 23, 2013 11:30 AM The cries for help arrived via international phone calls from Moscow to Houston. They came from Huynh Thi Be-Huong in the last week who was reaching out to her sister, using the cellphone of a couple who she claims forced her to work as a sex slave…
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People’s Court rejected appeal by anti-graft activist
A top court in Vietnam turned down an appeal by a prominent labor activist who was sentenced to five years in prison in June for distributing propaganda against the state. The People’s Supreme Court in southeastern Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan province on Wednesday upheld the prison sentence of 53-year-old Phan Ngoc Tuan, an advocate for workers’…
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Vietnam workers kept like slaves at factory in Russia
August 10, 2012 By Oxana Vozhdaeva BBC Russian.com Workers showed the BBC skin rashes they said were the result of poor hygiene The BBC has found disturbing evidence of Vietnamese textile workers being kept in slave-like conditions at a Vietnamese-run factory in Russia. Staff at Vinastar, a medium-sized business in the village of Savino south-east…
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Labor Rights Organization Wages Campaign to End Forced Labor in Vietnam
In detention centers all over Vietnam, some 40,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will and forced to labor for the Vietnamese government. The victims are held without a hearing or a trial in a court of law in drug detention centers on suspicion of using illegal drugs. Most detainees are picked…
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Ho Thi Bich Khuong — democratic voice from Vietnam
“As long as I breathe, I will keep fighting.” Ho Thi Bich Khuong former victim of labor trafficking, human rights advocate, prisoner of conscience, recipient of the Hellman-Hammett Award Ho Thi Bich Khuong, born in 1967 in Nam Anh, Nam Dan, Nghe An Province, is a human rights advocate victimized by Vietnam’s government. She was…
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US: Vietnam ranked Tier 2 in human trafficking
In its recently released annual report on trafficking in persons, the US Department of State lists Vietnam in Tier 2, a ranking for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Vietnam was on the…
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Anti-human trafficking coalition launches campaign to boycott “blood cashews” from Vietnam
Boycott “blood cashews” from Vietnam Press Release Contact: bpsos@bpsos.org June 13, 2012 Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA) calls on consumers around the globe to boycott cashews exported by Vietnam because they are a product of modern-day slavery. Human Rights Watch, in its publication titled “The Rehab Archipelago,” reports that forced labor has…
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