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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 Jan. 3-9. Read in Vietnamese: Project88’s analysis of the case against environmentalist and NGO leader Ngo Thi To Nhien. The English version is available here. *** Now that nearly all prominent democracy and environmental activists have been either […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of Dec. 20-26 and Dec. 27-Jan. 2. In case you missed it, read Project88’s newest report, detailing persecution incidents apart from arrests and trials that suggest a turn for the worse in Vietnam’s suppression of dissent, even […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Dec. 6-12. “As key leaders of Vietnam’s climate change movement remain behind bars and JETP donors fail to condition the disbursement of funding on civil society participation, there is nobody left to hold the government […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of Nov. 22-28 and Nov. 29- Dec.5. “By arresting [Ngo Thi To] Nhien, the Vietnamese government has sent the message that research on energy policy is now off limits to civil society.” – Project88 issue brief on the arrest […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]