Conversations on Vietnam Development
BEIJING — The ominous images in the video pile up, set to darkly urgent music. Refugees fleeing failed uprisings in the Middle East. Western diplomats and politicians cast as puppet masters of subversion in China. Chinese lawyers abjectly confessing to subversion in show trials. Protests erupting in Hong Kong.
Institute for Human Rights and Business
The human rights challenges expected in 2017 reflect a stark shift in social, political and economic drivers at the global level. At risk is the erosion of an international system upholding human rights protections and the rule of law, which could impact societies, economies, and businesses.
The human rights movement faces a difficult future in 2017, and it is up to all actors – civil society, governments as well as businesses – to champion the issues people care about and make human rights relevant to peoples’ daily lives.
As of 2016, the top 1% of the world’s population now owns more than everyone else put together. In the United States, the top 1% secured over half of all income growth since the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Tiếp tục đọc “TOP 10 BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES”
CSDM – 1 – 2014
Trong sâu thẳm tâm tư, bà con dân bản không muốn bản mình thay tên đổi họ, cho dù cái tên mới đầy mầu sắc phố thị, nhưng nó không đơn giản chỉ là một cái tên khi trong nó còn cả một phần văn hoá bản làng của người Thái Mường Lò.
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| Bản trong phố là một phần làm nên bản sắc của một thị xã miền núi như Nghĩa Lộ. (Trong ảnh: Một góc bản Noỏng trước đây – tổ 15 phường Pú Trạng bây giờ). |
theconversation_The development of the internet has completely transformed the way we do business; and the “oldest profession” is no exception. In a world of online chatrooms, webcam performers can market anything from conversation to explicit sex acts. And unlike pornography or prostitution, there are virtually no laws regulating this form of sex work. Tiếp tục đọc “Webcamming: the sex work revolution that no one is willing to talk about”
Activists say British authorities are failing to identify and protect victims who have been trafficked to the UK as slaves, many of them children
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Despite having been identified as one of the groups most vulnerable to trafficking crimes in the UK, National Crime Agency (NCA) figures shows that suspected Vietnamese trafficking victims are half as likely to be granted protection compared with other victims. Just 11% of Vietnamese referrals were accepted and offered protection last year, well below the referral average of 27%. Tiếp tục đọc “UK condemned for deporting survivors of trafficking back to Vietnam”
GENEVA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines should be formally investigated by judicial authorities in his country for murder after he claimed to have personally killed people suspected of committing crimes, the top human rights official at the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, was responding to comments that Mr. Duterte made at a news conference on Friday in which he said that he had shot and killed “about three” men during his years as mayor of the southern city of Davao.
PPWG – 25/08/2016
Câu hỏi “Có nên vận động chính sách?” đã được đưa ra để khơi mào cho cuộc thảo luận về căn nguyên tại sao các tổ chức xã hội dân sự hay các tổ chức phi chính phủ vận động chính sách. Quá trình vận động chính sách là quá trình trao đổi tri thức, huy động sự tham gia của cộng đồng và là sự va đập giữa các giá trị của các nhóm (lợi ích) khác nhau. Mỗi cuộc vận động là một sự chuyển động hướng đến sự tự do, bảo vệ lợi ích, hoặc góp phần xây dựng thể chế hay một cơ chế nào đó để bảo vệ quyền tự do của người dân.
Tọa đàm Có nên vận động chính sách Tiếp tục đọc “Có nên vận động chính sách?”
10 Tháng 11 Năm 2016 – Trang này bằng: English
Hà Nội, ngày 10 tháng 11 năm 2016, Tổ chức Cứu trợ Trẻ em đã ký kết thỏa thuận viện trợ với Ngân hàng thế giới để triển khai dự án Lồng ghép cải thiện tình trạng dinh dưỡng trẻ em khu vực miền núi phía Bắc, triển khai tại tỉnh Yên Bái và Sơn La (giai đoạn 2017-2021). Tiếp tục đọc “Các nhóm dân tộc thiểu số ở phía Bắc Việt Nam hưởng lợi từ dự án hợp tác giữa Tổ chức Cứu trợ Trẻ em và Ngân hàng Thế giới”
Thomson Reuters Foundation Dec 16, 2016
HONG KONG/BEIJING – Living in Beijing for 23 years, Li Xue has never attended school, not even for a day.
China provides a free, nine-year education to every child but Li was not included. For the past 23 years, she has had no access to any form of social welfare. She has not been allowed to get married, find a job, or open a bank account.
Li was the second child born to her parents. Due to the nation’s one-child policy that ran from around 1978 until 2015 to curtail population growth, she didn’t exist in the Chinese government’s database. Tiếp tục đọc “Lost lives: China’s invisible children fight to recover their missed years”
AP
Washington – The United States said Thursday it is withholding a major aid package to the Philippines and is deeply troubled by a boast from the nation’s leader that he used to drive around looking for criminals to kill.
It was the latest sign of strain in U.S.-Philippine relations since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a crackdown on illegal drugs has led to thousands of deaths in police gunbattles. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. withholds aid to Philippines after Duterte boasts of looking for people to kill”
GENEVA — The top human rights official for the United Nations condemned the Myanmar government’s handling of violence in Muslim areas bordering Bangladesh on Friday, saying it risked creating a breeding ground for violent extremism.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines confirmed on Friday that he had personally pulled the trigger and killed three people as mayor of Davao City, doubling down on boastful comments he made this week, which loyalists had tried to deny.
BEIJING — A well-known Chinese human rights activist who had not been seen or heard from for more than three weeks is in police custody, accused of possessing secret government documents and spiriting them abroad, state-run news outlets said on Friday.
When the plainclothes police came for Mir Ahmad bin Quasem, they didn’t even give him time to put on his shoes. According to his wife, at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 9, the young lawyer was dragged down the steps of their first-floor apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, and into an unmarked van. Their two young daughters ran behind, screaming. Tiếp tục đọc “Bangladesh Is Vanishing The Opposition”
Reuters Dec 13, 2016 Japan Times
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a senator who has been an outspoken critic of a surge of extrajudicial killings unleashed by the president’s campaign against drugs. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine lawmakers file criminal case against Duterte critic”
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