Democratic Voice of Vietnam

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Category: Land Rights & Social Justice

  • Farming land cleared in Vietnam for Eco Park

    Posted 12 January 2009, 12:01 AEST The clearing of land has begun for a new township and golf course south east of Vietnam’s capital Hanoi despite protests from hundreds of farmers.  Presenter: Christine Webster Speaker: Carl Thayer, specialist in Vietnamese politics and Professor of Politics from the University of New South Wales at the Australian…

  • Vietnam Bloggers Battle Tightening Censorship

    Cat Barton |  May 09, 2012 In a photograph taken on May 7, 2012, a man watches a video posted on the popular blog of Dr. Nguyen Xuan Dien showing villagers challenging policemen during forced land evictions in the neighboring province’s Van Giang district on April 24, 2012. When riot police broke up a recent…

  • 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…

  • Statement on the Vietnamese government’s violation of farmers’ property rights by the Nguyễn Kim Điền Group of Catholic Priests

    Statement on the Vietnamese government’s violation of farmers’ property rights By the Nguyễn Kim Điền Group of Catholic Priests 15-05-2012 To: All our Countrymen (in Vietnam and overseas), including Vietnamese Farmers and Catholics of Vietnamese Descent To: the Governments of All Democratic Nations and All the Human Rights Organizations To: All People of Good Will Throughout the World. As temperatures rose…

  • Vietnam’s Imprisoned Constituational Scholar In Short List for Human Rights Award

    JURY OF IRISH PARLIAMENTARIANS SHORTLISTS VIETNAMESE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER DR CU HUY HA VU FOR 2012 FRONT LINE DEFENDERS AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AT RISK Every year the Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk is awarded to one individual, or group of individuals, who has made an outstanding contribution to…