A group of 21 international and Vietnamese human rights groups have written top European Union officials to ask for help during trade negotiations between Hanoi and Brussels in winning the freedom of political prisoner Nguyen Bac Truyen, who is serving am 11-year jail term for legal and pro-democracy advocacy. Nguyen Bac Truyen, a former political…

Dear High Representative/Vice President Mogherini, We are writing to express our deep concern about the arrest and sentencing of legal expert and human rights defender Nguyễn Bắc Truyển in Vietnam, and to request that you take all necessary measures to secure his immediate and unconditional release. Nguyễn Bắc Truyển was abducted by the Vietnamese police…

03/24/2019 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Religious minorities in communist Vietnam are facing systematic discrimination due to their faith. UN needs to step in to address the issue, according to a human rights group. At the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council on March 13, the president of Boat People SOS (BPSOS), Dr. Nguyen…

Vietnam’s Hmong Christians are persecuted for their beliefs. Why does their faith make the government so uneasy? There are an estimated 300,000 Hmong Christians living in Vietnam The government sees their belief in Jesus Christ as the messiah as a possible touchstone for separatists Foua, a farmer in his 30s, has spent three months behind…

NextGen Youth Leadership Summit for middle school, high school, and college students in Washington D.C. from July 7-10, 2019 During the summit, students will… * Deepen their knowledge of human rights situations in Vietnam and around the world by hearing from experts in the field of international advocacy * Learn from speakers from USAID, the…

Vietnam should “immediately release” six Vietnamese activists and bloggers who are facing lengthy prison sentences for their peaceful opposition, New York-based Human Rights Watch said ahead of their upcoming trials. Luu Van Vinh, Nguyen Van Duc Do, Nguyen Quoc Hoan, Phan Trung and Tu Cong Nghia are scheduled to appear at a hearing in Ho…

Vietnamese citizens were outraged after a man was fined $8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator, a rare public outburst in a country where sexual assault is scarcely spoken about openly. The #MeToo movement never took off in Vietnam, a conservative communist country where gender-based violence is widespread but remains a taboo topic.…

NGO Consultation – March 11, 2019 Statement of Pastor Vang Chi Minh, Hmong United for Justice I am Wa Chi Minh Vang, an ethnic Hmong from Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. I am a Protestant pastor whom the Vietnamese government persecuted for exercising my right to religious freedom and defending the same right of others in…

March 13, 2019, at the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang, CEO and President of BPSOS, called on the UN Special Rapporteur on the Numerous Issues to intervene for the Hmong and the Central Highlands to become “stateless” because of their Christianity faith. Below is an English enounce Mr.…

Press Release – March 7, 2019 Contact us: forb@bpsos.org Today, BPSOS publishes a report entitled “Homeless as a form of punishment for H’Mong and Central Highlands Christians in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”. This report presents the information that BPSOS collected through a study – conducted over more than a year – of measures by…