Vietnam, along with 32 other countries, abstained from voting on a United Nations resolution requiring Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. The new resolution was approved by the UN General Assembly on February 23 (local time) with 141 votes…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently said that he has publicly raised the issue of human rights and the rights of environmental activists during his recent visits to Vietnam and India. During a press conference last week in Montreal, Canada,…
On October 20, a group of 14 international and domestic human rights organizations sent a joint open letter calling on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urge the Vietnamese leadership to release four Vietnamese environmental activists convicted for alleged “tax…
Activists say Vietnam needs to change its perception of human rights to improve the country’s human rights record and contribute more to the international community as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the 2023-2025 term. Despite…
2, Vietnam continued to abstain from voting for a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia’s arbitrary annexation of four regions of Ukraine, although Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang in his speech previously emphasized the cause of the principle…
On October 3, three human rights organizations released a joint report calling on member states of the United Nations (UN) not to elect Vietnam and four other authoritarian countries to the UN Human Rights Council. UN Watch, Human Rights Foundation,…
Whether Vietnam was forced or volunteered, the consequences of all three votes by Vietnam’s representative at the UN General Assembly were incalculable. One of the dangerous consequences for Vietnam is the change of the strategic chessboard in the South China…
On April 7, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly voted to expel Russia from the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on accusations of human rights violations in Ukraine, with 93 votes in favor, 24 votes against, and 58 abstentions. Vietnam was…
It is worth noting that Vietnam, along with China, and North Korea… are among the 24 countries that voted against this resolution, even though Hanoi had twice abstained before to show its neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. According to experts,…
Observers in Vietnam and abroad commented to VOA that the Vietnamese government has “moved closer” to Russia, and decided to “pick sides” with Moscow, instead of following the majority according to common sense in the vote on April 7 at…
