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Children’s Rights. Violence against children, including sexual abuse, is a serious problem in Vietnam, including at home and in schools. Numerous media reports have described cases of guardians...
Freedom of Expression, Opinion, and Speech. Political dissidents and human rights activists face systematic harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest, abuses in custody, and imprisonment....
Vietnam’s vibrant civil society and social media face increasing restrictions affecting both informal actors (such as bloggers) and legally registered NGOs. Human rights remain a contentious issue in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship; however, successive U.S. presidents have assured Vietnamese leaders that the United States respects Vietnam’s ...
The primary social issues in Vietnam are rural and child poverty. Vietnam scores 37.6 in the Gini coefficient index, with the top 10% accounting for 30.2% of the nation’s income and the bottom 10% receiving 3.2%.
However, Vietnam’s successes came at the cost of increasing violations of rights: restrictions on freedom of speech; failure to protect the right of privacy; and inequity in access to social...
Corruption in financial, banking, natural resource mining, public investment, education, healthcare, and judicial sectors was a significant political and social problem.
Social barriers and the limited accessibility of many workplaces remained problems in the employment of persons with disabilities. Penalties for discrimination were less than those under laws related to civil rights.
Research by Amnesty International revealed that between February and June, a campaign connected to Intellexa’s Predator spyware attack infrastructure targeted at least 50 social media accounts belonging to 27 individuals and 23 institutions, some of whom were Vietnamese.
Ethnic minorities in Vietnam are terribly disadvantaged due to the lack of access to education, infrastructure, transportation, health care and other services. These factors have contributed to...
Human Rights Watch has accused Vietnamese authorities of harassing and detaining more than 170 activists in the past two decades, in a new report. Many were barred from leaving their homes by...