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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Collective concern grows on Vietnam’s draft law on religion
VIETNAM – 26 November 2015 On 3 November 2015 a diverse collection of international, regional, and local organizations, both religious and secular, released a joint statement of concern regarding Vietnam’s draft law on religion prior to the law’s debate in the National Assembly. Since the joint statement’s initial release, additional organizations, including ASEAN Parliamentarians for…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Independent groups in Vietnam barred from travel continue to fight for space in key regional forum
Vietnam – 17 November 2015 A collection of independent civil society organizations (CSOs) issued a joint statement to the ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF), to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 17-19, raising concerns over an undemocratic process that excludes independent civil society organizations from Vietnam. “There is no…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vietnam’s Draft Law Threatens Religious Freedom
Rights organizations call for comprehensive revision of Vietnamese government’s draft law on religion Bangkok, November 3, 2015 Citing a series of inconsistencies with international law protecting the right to freedom of religion or belief, 27 organizations, including international NGOs and regional civil society organizations today issued a joint statement criticizing Vietnam’s draft law on religion…
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Faith-based and other groups commit to strengthen freedom of religion or belief in Southeast Asia
Bangkok, Thailand – For the first time, approximately 70 human rights defenders, members of religious groups, rights groups, UN agencies and representatives from the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Women and Children, National Human Rights Institutions and other government agencies from across the region…
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PRESS RELEASE: Draft Law on Association is Regressive and Violates Basic Human Rights, Claim Independent CSOs in Vietnam
3 August 2015 – VIETNAM A collection of 22 independent civil society organizations (CSOs) have delivered a strong rebuke of the new draft law on associations set for review at Vietnam’s National Assembly in October. The independent CSOs’ joint statement points to an alarming number of areas, which would further infringe upon fundamental freedoms of…
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Vietnam Passes Sham UN Rights Protection
By Huynh Thuc Vy Asia Sentinel Feb 10, 2015 But no matter how many international treaties the regime has signed, human rights conditions in the country remain unchanged and in fact, the ratification is only being used as propaganda. Vietnam seems to have signed almost all the conventions on human rights that the world has…
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A Family of Montagnard asylum seekers deported from Cambodia
Gov’t boots out family Thu, 5 February 2015 Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy A family of Montagnard asylum seekers, including two young children and a 9-month-old baby, has been deported to Vietnam, where the father was reportedly beaten by authorities for attempting to escape. The fate of the five Christian asylum seekers had been unknown…
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Vietnam: Tight Control of Critics, Democracy Advocates in 2014
No Light at the End of the Tunnel for Activists published January 29, 2015 (New York) – The human rights situation in Vietnam in 2014 continued to be characterized by one-party rule, politically motivated convictions, lack of labor rights, widespread police abuse, and an escalating land crisis, Human Rights Watch said today in its World…
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Rights Group Presses Cambodia to End Persecution of Montagnards
2015-02-02, by RFA A rights group has asked the Cambodian government to stop harassing Christian Montagnards from Vietnam who are seeking refugee status in the country following the arrest of a family of five Montagnards in a northeastern province. Cambodian authorities arrested the family, including two children and an infant, on Sunday after police and…
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Eighteen More Montagnards Cross Into Ratanakkiri
By Aun Pheap | January 29, 2015 Eighteen Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam on Wednesday morning, according to a rights group and a local villager, the fourth such group to arrive in the country this month. Chhay Thy, the provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said the 18 were sheltering in…
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