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Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of August 14-20. August 18 was Nguyen Van Oai’s birthday, and his trial, which was set for August 21, has now been postponed. Nguyen Bac Truyen, who […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 17 to 23. This week marked Mother Mushroom’s first birthday in prison since her arrest and sentencing to ten years in prison on June 29, while […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 5th to 11th. This week, Vietnam attended the 35th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, despite a continued crackdown on activists and […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 15 to 21. Environmental activist Hoàng Đức Bình and Hòa Hảo Buddhist follower Vương Văn Thả were arrested this week. Dissident musician Trần Vũ Anh Bình was released, […]
In Freedom Houses’s new report “Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizons,” 13 is the magic number. That’s the meager percentage of the world population that currently lives in a country where the press is classified as “Free.” The report also deems press freedom to be at its lowest level worldwide in 13 […]
Given the recent violent clashes between citizens and police in Vietnam, the proposed ban on audio and video recording devices, and arrests of several prominent bloggers so far in 2017, it may come as little surprise that Vietnam ranks 175 out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders’s (RSF) newly-released 2017 World Press Freedom Index. […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and action items regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 3 to 9. So much has been going on. April 6 marked the first anniversary of the environmental disaster in central Vietnam, […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 27 to April 2. Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh received the 2017 International Women of Courage Award – the only recipient from this year who […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 20-26: two more arrests under Article 88; the continued struggle of the victims of the Formosa environmental disaster; public outcry about recent pedophilia […]
We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Feb. 23-29. On Friday, March 1, Project88 released the report, “Vietnam’s communist party declares war on human rights as a matter of official policy,” which reveals the contents of a secret national security directive issued by […]