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Mongabay - In Vietnam, environmental defense is increasingly a crime (3 Sept 2024)
Reuters - Activists press Apple to oppose Vietnam's detainments of climate experts (10 Apr 2024)
United Nations Human Rights - Viet Nam: End convictions and deplorable detention conditions for human rights defenders, UN experts say (14 Feb 2024)
CNN - Major international financing deal to get Vietnam off coal moves ahead while it locks up climate defenders (08 Dec 2023)
Politico - Diplomatic cables reveal UK fears over $15B Vietnam coal deal (08 Dec 2023)
Mongabay - NGOs at COP28 demand Vietnam free climate advocates before it gets energy funding (08 Dec 2023)
Bloomberg - There’s a Way to Quit Coal Without Wrecking Jobs and Communities (07 Dec 2023)
The New York Times - Vietnam Relied on Environmentalists to Secure Billions. Then It Jailed Them. (28 Nov 2023)
SF Chronicle - Vietnam committed to net zero emissions by 2050. So why is it arresting climate change activists?
Southeast Asia Globe - Questioning Development Banks’ Commitments to Just Transition
Reuters - In Vietnam, climate arrests spark calls to halt energy transition deal
CNN - US condemns Vietnam’s jailing of prominent climate activist on tax charges
Nikkei Asia - Vietnam is Betraying its "Just Energy Partnership"
Time Magazine - What to Know About Vietnam’s Persistent Crackdown on Environmentalists
Asia Times - Biden should press climate activist rights in Vietnam
Washington Post - How Biden can court Vietnam — and help those stuck behind bars
Triple Pundit - Climate Finance Must Combat Climate Prisoners
The Diplomat - Hoang Thi Minh Hong's Release Is Vital For Vietnam's Energy Transition
UK Independent - Activists launch unprecedented mass hunger strike over arrest of Vietnam climate advocate
NPR - Vietnam's human rights record is being scrutinized ahead of $15 billion climate deal
Al Jazeera - US, UN slam arrest of prominent Vietnamese environmental activist
Radio Free Asia - UN working group faults Vietnam for arbitrary detention of climate activist
fairplanet - This lunar new year, I want my husband home
Politico - Wife of Vietnamese prisoner urges EU to take action through trade deal
New York Times - She Spoke Out Against Vietnam’s Plans for Coal. Then She Was Arrested.
Newsweek - Vietnam's Climate Contradiction
Al Jazeera - Vietnam’s ‘unjust’ energy transition
Radio Free Asia - Vietnam faces global calls to release anti-coal activist
UK Guardian - Vietnam urged to free green activist Nguy Thi Khanh as it bids to join UN rights body
UK Independent – Vietnam secures UNHRC seat despite concerns over crackdown on climate activists
Common Dreams - Vietnam’s Clean Energy Transition Must Involve Civil Society Freedom
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- Letter to Apple: Apple Urged to Address Climate Justice Concerns in Vietnam by 60+ Organizations from Around the World (11 April, 2024)
- Nhien Statement (27 September, 2023)
- Coalition Statement on the Resource Mobilization Plan (August 2023)
- 3,000+ Sign Stand With Bach Petition
- Organizational Sign-on Letter - English
- Solidarity Hunger Strike Sign-on Letter - English
- Solidarity Hunger Strike Sign-on Letter - Vietnamese
- International NGOs Call for Release of Prominent Environmental Defender in Vietnam One Year After 5-Year Prison Sentence (24 January, 2023)
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- UN statement: Sentencing of environmental human rights defenders in Viet Nam (29 September, 2023)
- CCPR/C/VNM/CO/3: Human Rights Committee: Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Viet Nam (29 August 2019)
- Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, et al of 10 December 2021
