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Suppression of Civil Society Strangling Prospects for Sustainable Development: Project88 Submission to Dr. Surya Deva, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Development

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In addition to our joint submission with the Vietnam Climate Defenders Coalition, Project88 also lodged its own submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, Professor Surya Deva, ahead of Deva’s visit to Vietnam from Nov. 6-15. In it, we highlight a myriad of issues facing civil society actors that are preventing […]

Challenges to a Just Energy Transition and the Right to Development in Vietnam — Project88 Joint Submission to Dr. Surya Deva, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Development

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Project88 contributed to a joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, Professor Surya Deva, ahead of Deva’s visit to Vietnam from Nov. 6-15. Project88, International Rivers, and Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, argue that Vietnam cannot meet development goals unless climate change and environmental thinkers and leaders, as well as civil […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 42/2023 – Week of October 31-November 6

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Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6. “The achievement of closer ties between the U.S. and Vietnam has coincided with a significant increase in human rights abuses by the Vietnamese state against its own citizens. Far from promoting […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 41/2023 – Week of Oct. 24-30

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Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 24-30. A human rights lawyer harassed for years by the authorities left the country. There are more personal stories of alleged abusive practices against political prisoners, including two accounts by former police officers […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 40/2023 – Week of October 17-23

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Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 17-23. *** “Not only have arrests and harassment of HRDs continued unabated since Vietnam’s last UPR, but the government has also taken up new strategies to clamp down on dissent, like imprisoning NGO […]

Project88 and Front Line Defenders UPR Submission

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Project88 and Front Line Defenders made a joint UPR submission ahead of Vietnam’s scheduled spring 2024 review. “Not only have arrests and harassment of human rights defenders continued unabated since Vietnam’s last UPR,” said Project88 Co-Director Kaylee Uland, “but the government has also taken up new strategies to clamp down on dissent, like imprisoning NGO […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 38/2023 – Week of October 10-16

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Greetings from Project 88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 10-16. Project 88’s Ben Swanton spoke with The Guardian about Vietnam’s targeting of the very climate activists that helped the country negotiate international environmental support in the first place. Meanwhile, Vietnam […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 38/2023 – Week of October 3-9

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Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of October 3-9. Nguyen Viet Dung is a tough but learned man with firm democratic convictions. He was incarcerated twice for his political activities, including flying the flag of the former South Vietnam and […]

Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 37/2023 – Week of September 26-October 2

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Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2. “This conviction is a total fraud, nobody should be fooled by it.” -Ben Swanton, Co-Director of Project 88 on the conviction of Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion *** The conviction […]