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Vietnam's Track Record on Torture and Human Rights

In 2018, the U.N. Committee against Torture evaluated Vietnam's compliance with the Convention Against Torture for the first time since Vietnam's signing and ratification of the Convention in 2013 and 2015, respectively. See how Vietnam measured up in reports by the United Nations, civil society groups, and the Vietnamese government itself.

Vietnam's Compliance with the Torture Convention
Read the UN's Conclusions regarding Vietnam's Compliance with the Torture Convention
U.N. Committee against Torture, "Concluding Observations on the Initial Report of Viet Nam," December 28, 2018. 


Vietnam's Report to the U.N.
Read the Vietnamese government’s report to the UN assessing its implementation of the Torture Convention.

Reports By Civil Society Groups
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Read report that civil society groups submitted to the UN regarding Vietnam's compliance with the Torture Convention.

The Council of Indigenous Peoples in Today’s Viet Nam

Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

Joint Report by ACAT, BPSOS, CAT-VN, CSW, LIV and VN-CAT
Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France), Boat People SOS (BPSOS), Campaign to Abolish Torture in Vietnam (CAT-VN), Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), and Legal Initiatives for Vietnam (LIV)

Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO)

Vietnam’s Persecution Against Protesters during June 2018 Mass Demonstrations
A joint submission by Boat People SOS (BPSOS), Defend the Defenders (DTD), Vietnamese Women for Human Rights (VNWHR), The Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience (FVPOC), and Association of Bau Bi Tuong Than.
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