On March 24, the United Nations General Assembly (UN) adopted a resolution demanding that Russia immediately stop waging war in Ukraine, calling on the international community to increase humanitarian aid to the people of this country, and at the same…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur has asked the Vietnamese government to respond to alleged “arbitrary” arrests and detentions of a range of human rights activists and defenders. In a letter sent to the Vietnamese government from last November, the group…
Press briefing notes on Viet Nam Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 17 December 2021 We are deeply troubled by the harsh sentencing of human rights and land rights defenders convicted of spreading anti-State propaganda in…
The United Nations has called on Vietnam to crack down on human trafficking after it noted the abuse of women and girls recruited from Vietnam to Saudi Arabia as domestic workers. The case attracted attention recently after VOA recorded cases…
In recent days, Taiwan has once again emerged as a fierce confrontation between the US and China. On May 1, the US delegation at the United Nations affirmed its support for Taiwan to participate in activities at the UN and…
In the face of illegal sovereignty claims and aggressive Chinese actions in the East Sea (South China Sea), public opinion in Vietnam has repeatedly raised the issue of Vietnam’s challenging China in international courts. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)…
Leading U.S. manufacturers of protective equipment told the White House that China banned them from exporting the products they produced from China amid the heightening of the Covid-19 pandemic and Beijing manipulate protective equipment market, according to the New York…
Vietnam has sent a note to the United Nations to oppose China’s sovereignty claims in the East Sea (South China Sea). According to observers, this move could be a prelude to a legal process in the near future if Hanoi…
The US was “deeply concerned” about reports of China’s sinking a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the Paracel Islands (the Hoang Sa) in the South China Sea (East Sea), US State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on April…
A group of UN human rights experts earlier this year sent an appeal to question the Vietnamese government about the detention of independent journalist Pham Chi Dung, chairman of the Independent JournalistsAssociation of Vietnam (IJAVN), requesting a response in 60…
