Show your support for the petition to the United Nations member states to prevent Vietnam from participating in the United Nations Human Rights Council

                                                PETITION

Do not elect Vietnam to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term.

To: The member states of the United Nations

Recently, the world has been overly shaken by the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians fled their homes in many towns destroyed by Russian bombs, and thousands were massacred, including women and children.

Faced with this heinous crime, on the 7 of April 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Ninety-three countries voted in favor, 58 abstained, and 24 opposed.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was among those who voted against it.

Indeed, those who have followed Vietnam’s stance since the early days of the war in Ukraine are not surprised by the significance of this vote. Vietnam abstained twice when the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn Russia’s aggression on the 2 and 16 of March. Vietnam’s support for Russia is just the policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam - a totalitarian regime that has ruled the country for more than half a century. This policy completely contradicts the Vietnamese people’s aspirations.

However, despite the record of systematic human rights violations that have lasted for decades and the support for the pro-war stance of dictator Vladimir Putin, the totalitarian regime in Vietnam intends to run for the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term.

Faced with the risk of the UN Human Rights Council being abused by members with the worst human rights records, we, the undersigned Vietnamese organizations and individuals, urgently call on the United Nations members not to elect Vietnam to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term.

Before looking for membership of the Council, the Vietnamese government must improve its human rights record, strictly enforce international human rights conventions, and contribute to the international community to build a peaceful and prosperous world.

Signatory organizations

• Vietnam Human Rights Network
• Defend the Defenders
• Assembly for Democracy of Vietnam
• Humanistic Socialist Party
• The Great Viet Party
• Vietnam Democracy Federation
• The Independent Journalists Association
• Vietnam Democracy Radio
• Vietnamese Political & Religious Prisoners Friendship Association, USA-Vietnam
• Ligue vietnamienne des droits de l’homme en Suisse
• Rallying for Democracy, USA
• Human Rights Relief Foundation, Australia
• The Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party, USA
• Association France-Vietnam d’Entraide, France
• United Council of Vietnamese Homeland and Overseas, USA
• la Communauté Vietnamienne de Liège, Belgique
• Evangelical Lutheran Community Church In America & Vietnam
• Antelope Valley Vietnamese Association, USA
• Calgary Vietnamese Canadian Association, Canada
• Laity Forum Magazine, California, USA
• Hue Natives Association in New York, USA
• UniGeneration Montréal, Canada
• Bloc 8406
• Free Vietnamese Canadian Community of Ottawa
• Vietnamese Canadian Federation

This petition will be sent to the representatives of all U.N. member states in New York.

Please sign this petition to urge the United Nations member states not to elect Vietnam to the Human Rights Council.