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UN Calls on Gov’t to Protect Group of Montagnards in Country
By Aun Pheap and George Wright | November 26, 2014 The U.N.’s refugee agency on Tuesday confirmed that 13 Montagnards have crossed into the country from Vietnam and urged the Cambodian government to refrain from deporting members of the group at the risk of endangering their lives. “UNHCR is aware of 13 Montagnards from Viet…
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Hmong Ordered Jailed for Defying Vietnamese Government Campaign
2014-03-14 A provincial court in northern Vietnam on Friday sentenced a Hmong Christian to 18 months in jail for defying a government campaign forcing the ethnic minority group to return to older funeral practices now considered wasteful by many in the community. Hoang Van Sang, 60, was handed an 18-month jail term by a court…
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UN’s refugee office in Cambodia shrinks
The Phnom Penh Post, 08 January 2013 By Abby Seiff Montagnard hill tribesmen ride in the back of a truck after emerging from dense forest near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in Ratanakkiri province in 2004. Photograph: Reuters Facing financial constraints and a steep decline in asylum seekers to Cambodia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cut…
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Your New Human Rights Councilor; Vietnam invents a U.N. procedure to silence critics.
Opinion 31 July 2012 The Wall Street Journal Online Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Security Council’s latest fumble on Syria might represent the U.N.’s biggest failure of the last month, but it’s hardly the only one. So as a reminder of all the little things the U.N. also gets wrong, we…
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Human rights organizations deplore UN’s caving in to Vietnam regarding consultative status of NGO
Viet Nam: UN caves in to Vietnamese pressure, rejects the consultative status of the NGO KKF JOINT PRESS RELEASE – THE OBSERVATORY Viet Nam: UN caves in to Vietnamese pressure, rejects human rights group’s consultative status Bangkok-Paris-Geneva, July 24, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH and OMCT joint…
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Vietnam’s Two-Front War on Religion
By Michael Benge July 22, 2012 The Vietnamese regime’s religion is communism, and the Party views all other organized religions as a direct threat to national security and its authoritarian control of the Vietnamese people. Religious tolerance exists only in theory; Article 70 of Vietnam’s Constitution of 1992 states that citizens “shall enjoy freedom…
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Civil society organisations meet ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, call for universal standards to be upheld
Sunday, 24 June 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, 22 June 2012): Representatives of Civil society organisations (CSOs) have today met the AICHR for the first time for a consultation on the drafting of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. The organisations have welcomed the Consultation as a positive step in the right direction. They also welcome the constructive…
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Vietnam-China smuggling surges
Financial Times May 29, 2012 6:35 pm By Ben Bland in Mong Cai Although it looks to be the easiest way to move goods across the narrow river that separates the Vietnamese city of Mong Cai from China, there is surprisingly little traffic on the official border bridge. Apart from a few Vietnamese tourists returning…
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