Citizen journalism in Vietnam

VRNs (Mar 24^th, 2015) – Manila, Philippines –  The authorities are so afraid of social media’s pervasive power to connect people and ideas that they have tried everything to block it.  But so far, they have failed and now have to live with it.

Protest Letter from the Interfaith Council of Vietnam

VRNs (March 14, 2015) – PROTEST LETTER FROM THE INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF VIETNAM

About the Thua Thien-Hue province government’s ban on the meeting of the Invalid Soldiers of Republic of Vietnam at Phuoc Thanh pagoda in Hue City.

24 Vietnamese CSOs Report on Human Rights violation 2014 in Vietnam

VRNs (Feb 01^st , 2015) – Saigon

Vietnam: Tight Control of Critics, Democracy Advocates in 2014

VRNs (Jan 31 th, 2015) – New York, UAS – No Light at the End of the Tunnel for Activists

(New York, January 29, 2015) – 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 Report 2015. The Vietnamese government kept tight control over freedom of expression and association as bloggers, human rights defenders, labor and land rights activists, and religious and democracy advocates continued to face harassment, intimidation, physical assault, and imprisonment.

Vietnam: Plainclothes Agents Target Rights Campaigners

VRNs (Jan 28th, 2015) – New York, USA – Bloggers Assaulted for Visiting Fellow Activist

(New York, January 26, 2015) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately stop using violence against human rights campaigners, Human Rights Watch said today. In January 2015, leading bloggers were targeted by plainclothes agents and beaten. Human Rights Watch said the attacks violated basic rights and that all involved in the assaults against bloggers and rights activists should be held accountable for their acts of violence, intimidation, and harassment.

RECLAIMING THE ASEAN COMMUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE ACSC/APF 2015 – CSO STATEMENT

VRNs (Jan 25, 2015) – Malaysia – 1. PREAMBLE

1.1. This ASEAN Civil Society Conference and ASEAN People’s Forum marks the 10th anniversary since the first regional gathering of civil society in Malaysia. We, the civil society in Southeast Asia[1], welcome the commitment of ASEAN in the years since to establish a people-centric ASEAN and a peaceful, prosperous community. With deep regret and concern, the people’s recommendations submitted to ASEAN member states since 2005 have been neither implemented nor adopted in any meaningful way.

Vietnam civil society organizations’ comments to the 2015 ACSC/APF statement

VRNs (Jun 06^th, 2015) – Saigon –  To: Members of the Malaysian National Organizing Committee, Regional Steering Committee and Drafting Committee of the 2015 ASEAN APF/ACSC

A Sermon Delivered by Father Nguyễn Văn Toản On the First Sunday of Advent (NOV 30, 2014)

VRNs (04.01.2015) – Saigon – Translator’s Introduction: In July 1989, a few weeks after Gorbachev declared at an European Union Conference in Strasbourg that henceforth the Soviet Union will not interfere in the internal affairs of Eastern European countries, a Romanian pastor and long time opponent to the Romanian communist regime named Laszlo Tokes gave an interview to a Hungarian TV station.

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Vietnam CSOs’ Message on International Human Rights Day – Dec 10, 2014

VRNs (Dec 02^nd, 2014) – Saigon – The authorities of Communist dictatorship in Hanoi have restricted or deprived of the fundamental human rights of Vietnamese people set forth in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Civil rights, Political, Cultural, Economic and Social although Vietnam has signed and pledged to observe. The restriction and deprivation are both applied in the law and out of the law.

Ho Duy Hai, given a death sentence without being proven guilty ?

VRNs (01.12.2014) – Australia – Ho Duy Hai is a former student (born 1985) sentenced to death for allegedly killing two female postal workers at Cau Voi Post Office, Thu Thua District, Long An, South Viet Nam, in March 2008.

CSO of Vietnam: Condemn the recent violence and torture of public security service

VRNs (Nov 07^th, 2014) – Saigon – State and the Communist Party of Vietnam must take full responsibility for creating the blind and brutal tools, just knowing “the party lives on, so I live on”; persons completely lost conscience, despite laws, only knowing how to follow orders to help maintain the regime.

Vietnam Catholics Demand Return of Land in Rare Protest

VRNs  (Oct 30, 2014) Radio Free Asia (RFA) – A group of Catholics in Vietnam held a rare protest demanding that local officials in the capital Hanoi halt the filling of a lake on property they say belongs to their parish, according to priests and church members on Friday.

Vietnam CSO: A statement of support for the civil disobedience campaign conducted by the students and people of Hong Kong

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VRNs (Oct 07th, 2014) – Saigon – To the people of Hong Kong and the people of Vietnam everywhere,

In the past two weeks, the peaceful protest against the Chinese government for denying Hong Kong the right to autonomy have sent a shock wave around the world and have attracted mostly support and admiration.

Urgent statement from Hong Kong Federation of Students in response to the Government

VRNs (Oct 05th, 2014) – Hongkong –  On 22 September 2014, Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) had started class boycott, Further on 26 September 2014, HKFS called to regain the Civic Square. Finally, upon the citizens’ initiation, the whole movement has turned into Occupy movement on 28 September 2014.