All posts tagged "human rights defenders"

When Calls To Free Pham Doan Trang Are Not Enough

This op-ed article was written in Vietnamese by Trinh Huu Long and was previously published in the Luat Khoa Magazine on October 10, 2020.  Every time...

A Prisoner’s Dilemma: The State Of Human Rights Defenders In Vietnam

Since the United Nations released the first World Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in 2018, the many human rights violations committed by the...

The Women Of Possibilities

This article was published in Vietnamese by Luat Khoa Magazine on March 8, 2019. The translation was done by Will Nguyen. More than two years after...

RSF Campaigns To Free Pham Doan Trang

Two months after journalist Pham Doan Trang’s arrest, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently launched a campaign calling for her unconditional release. The campaign includes a petition...

How Can The EU Parliament Convince Us That Vietnam Will Improve Its Human Rights Record When Dissidents Continue To Get Jailed For Exercising Their Rights?

World Report On The Situation Of Human Rights Defenders: UN Expert Urges Vietnam To Stop Criminalize Activists

This week, the office of UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst, released the first global survey on the situation of...

Vietnam: Activists Refuse to Engage in Government’s Cat-and-Mouse Game

Around noon on November 16, 2017, journalist Pham Doan Trang, a member of our editorial board, found herself stuffed in a car driven by plained-clothes police, some...