President Joe Biden’s state visit to Hanoi on September 10-11 received great attention and appreciation from the international media. French news agency AFP, in a commentary titled, “Receiving the US President alone, Nguyen Phu Trong affirms the absolute leadership…
From April 4 to 6, a delegation of European Parliamentarians from the Human Rights Subcommittee visited Vietnam, led by German Congressman Udo Bullmann, Head of the Human Rights Commission. The Delegation included MPs Isabel Wiseler-Lima (Luxembourg), Cheorghe-Vlad Nistor (Romania) and…
Human rights issues in the one-party state have little effect on Vietnam’s plans to buy weapons from the United States and many Western countries, according to scholar Hoang Viet from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, however Prof.…
The President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) called on Vietnamese youth everywhere to continue to fight for human rights and pledged to support them when possible. Alice Mogwe, President of FIDH, told RFA reporters during an interview…
On October 20, a group of 14 international and domestic human rights organizations sent a joint open letter calling on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urge the Vietnamese leadership to release four Vietnamese environmental activists convicted for alleged “tax…
International human rights organizations on July 22 voiced their opposition to the sentence that the People’s Court of Duc Hoa district, Long An province, had just imposed on six people belonging to a family-based religious group, Tinh That Bong Lai,…
The head of the Vietnamese Government made the same speech as mentioned above on May 12 (US time) before US businesses during a working session organized by the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) and the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC). “We…
The year 2021 shows the Hanoi government’s crackdown on dissidents, which international human rights activists and monitors consider to be the worst in recent years amid the pandemic and the neglect of the West world. The government’s crackdown on dissenting…
The recent case of an 8-year-old girl being abused to death by her father’s mistress in Vietnam is causing public outrage and voices have emerged that say this case shows the need to be more public about human rights in…
Hanoi’s strategic importance to the United States and its allies is said to have allowed the Communist Party more opportunity to silence dissidents. With three trials of Vietnam’s most prominent human rights and land rights defenders in recent days and…
