Vietnam
Vietnam’s human rights record remains dire in virtually all areas. The ruling Communist Party maintains a monopoly on political power and allows no challenge to its leadership. Basic rights are severely restricted, including freedoms of speech and the media, public assembly, association, and conscience and religion. Rights activists and bloggers face police intimidation, harassment, restricted movement, arbitrary arrest, and incommunicado detention. Farmers lose land to development projects without adequate compensation, and workers are not allowed to form independent unions. The police regularly use torture and beatings to extract confessions. The criminal justice system, including the courts, lacks independence, for example sentencing political dissidents and civil society activists to long prison terms on bogus national security charges.
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Asia
January 18, 2024
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Asia
January 11, 2024
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United Nations
October 3, 2023
Videos
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February 12, 2020
“My Teacher Said I Had a Disease”
Barriers to the Right to Education for LGBT Youth in Vietnam
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June 18, 2017
No Country for Human Rights Activists
Assaults on Bloggers and Democracy Campaigners in Vietnam
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News
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January 11, 2024
Vietnam: A Gloomy Year for Human Rights
Environmentalists, Rights Activists Unjustly Imprisoned
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October 3, 2023
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam
46th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review
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October 3, 2023
Vietnam: Rights Reforms Urgently Needed
Upcoming UN Review Offers Opportunities to Press for Change
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September 27, 2023
Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Climate Activist
Environmental Leader Hoang Thi Minh Hong Faces Up to 7 Years in Prison
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September 11, 2023
Biden Should Press Climate Activist Rights in Vietnam
Vietnam is a $15.5 billion beneficiary of US Just Energy Transition Partnership yet imprisons green activists with reckless abandon
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September 9, 2023
Vietnam: Biden Should Raise Rights on Hanoi Visit
Crackdown on Activists, Repressive Laws Pose Barriers to Better US Relations
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September 1, 2023
Human Rights Watch Letter to President Biden
Re: Upcoming Visit and Human Rights in Vietnam
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August 28, 2023
Vietnam: Free Democracy Campaigners
Rights Activists Appealed Verdicts in Politically Motivated Cases
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July 28, 2023
Vietnam’s Crackdown on Dissent
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July 12, 2023
Vietnam Should Release Land Rights Activist
Progress Requires Rights Respecting Reforms