On September 24, 2016, Mr. Phạm Bình Minh, Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam, addressed the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session at the United Nations Headquarter in New York City. The full speech can be watched at this page: https://gadebate.un.org/en/71/viet-nam The content of the speech is very good if people do not know about the real situation of […]
July 18, 2012 To: Member states of ECOSOC Re: Support for the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation Your Excellency, We, the undersigned group of civil society organizations from around the world, are writing to express our strong support for the special consultative status with the United Nations granted to the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) and its right to exercise […]
The UN’s 19-member committee that oversees non-governmental organizations voted overwhelmingly to silence a human rights group fighting oppression in Vietnam, in violation of the UN’s own freedom of expression and association guarantees under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The vote was 13-4, with only Greece, Israel, the U.S. and Uruguay voting to support the human rights group. Those voting to censor […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s Communist Party Wednesday re-elected its 71-year-old chief for a second term, an expected outcome that sees the conservative pro-China ideologue cementing his hold on power. The party’s congress elected Nguyen Phu Trong (pronounced Noo-yen Foo Chong) to a 19-member Politburo, the all-powerful body that handles the day-to-day affairs of the government and the party. In […]
