On November 28, Project88 released a new issue brief covering the arrest of Ngo Thi To Nhien by Vietnamese authorities and documenting how her arrest is part of Vietnam’s ongoing suppression of climate activists. On September 15, 2023, Vietnam arrested Ngo Thi To Nhien, the head of the Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition Social Enterprise. […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Nov. 15-22. There will be no newsletter next week; we will resume publication the week of Dec. 4. “The Resident Coordinator seemingly did not adequately address the risk posed by the arrests of climate activists […]
To: Jorge Moreira da Silva, Undersecretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director Sanjay Mathur, UNOPS, Director, Asia Region Philip Timothy Rose,Fund Director, Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership Pauline Tamesis, UN Resident Coordinator for Vietnam 23 November, 2023 Dear Mr. Jorge Moreira da Silva, Mr. Sanjay Mathur, Mr. Philip Timothy Rose, and Ms. Pauline Tamesis, Re: Failure […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Nov. 7-15. “Previously, Vietnam generally targeted human rights activists and advocates for democratic reform. In recent years, however, the government has begun to target people who run non-governmental organizations that work on development issues. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Project88 made the below submission ahead US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Click here to download the full pdf. *** October 31, 2023 United States Department of State Washington D.C. Re: 2023 US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Dear Secretary Blinken, The achievement of closer ties between the U.S. and Vietnam has coincided with […]
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 […]
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 […]