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Press Release June 14, 2013
VNHRN participates in the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam
On June 14, 2013, Vietnam Human Rights Network (VNHRN) joined the Vietnam Human Rights Committee (VNHRC), Block 8406, and the Vietnamese Canadian Federation (VCF) in making a stakeholders’ joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council regarding the human rights situation in Vietnam ahead of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the country in January 2014.
- Click here to read the Joint Submission - Click here to read the stakeholders' information
The UPR process was established by the UN General Assembly in 2006 to evaluate the human rights records of the UN member states. According to this process, once every four and a half years each state is required to present measures it has taken to respect and promote human rights in its territory and to answer the questions from the Working Group composed of 47 members of the UN human Rights Council. The Working Group’s report then has to be adopted at a plenary session of the Human Rights Council.
In addition to the report prepared by the state under review, the UPR documentation also includes a compilation of UN information and information submitted by other stakeholders, such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and national human rights institutions.
The stakeholders’ joint submission by VNHRN, Block 8406, VNHRC, and VCF is classified as NGOs submission. The submission, substantiated with 2 appendices of evidence presenting the human rights violations committed by the Vietnam government since 2009 UPR, involves 8 basic rights areas stipulated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international covenants, as well as the very Constitution of VN. Those are the right to free speech, the right to freedom of assembly and the right to protest, the right to be tried by an independent and impartial tribunal, the right to life, the right to freedom of religion, the right to ownership, workers' rights, particularly the right to establish unions, and the violation of human dignity through various forms of human trafficking
To improve the human rights situation, the joint submission presented 12 recommendations to the government of Vietnam as well as to the UN Human Rights Council. According to Dr. Nguyen Ba Tung, President of VNHRN, this is the first step in the overall plan to mobilize international opinion in preventing Vietnam from tarnishing the reputation of the UN Human Rights Council by becoming one of its members for the 2014-2016 term.
For more information:
Vietnam Human Rights Network Dr. Nguyễn Bá Tùng Phone. 714-657-9488 Email: vnhrnet@vietnamhumanrights.net http://www.vnhrnet.org/
Block 8406 Rev. Phan Văn Lợi Email: witness2005@gmail.com
Vietnam Human Rights Committee Attorney Nguyễn văn Đài Email: uybannhanquyen@gmail.com
Vietnamese Canadian Federation Ms. Lâm Tuyết / Ms. Nguyễn Khuê Tú Phone: 613-230-8282 Email: info@vietfederation.ca; nguyenkhuetu22@gmail.com www.vietfederation.ca
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