In preparation of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Vietnam in 2019, L4L, together with the Law Society of England and Wales and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, has written a mid-term report. In this report, we set out to which extent Vietnam has implemented the recommendations it accepted during the 2014 UPR process in relation to the role of lawyers.
During the UPR in 2014, Vietnam received several recommendations regarding lawyers and human rights defenders, and their working environment. The authorities accepted some of these recommendations, amongst them recommendations on access to a lawyer, freedom of expression of human rights defenders (lawyers amongst them) and a favourable working environment of human rights defenders and lawyers.
Our report concludes that Vietnam does not fully uphold the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and has failed to adequately implement the recommendations on access to a lawyer, freedom of expression of human rights defenders (lawyers amongst them) and a favourable working environment of human rights defenders and lawyers. We provided concrete examples of the situation of lawyers in Vietnam, including of lawyers Le Quoc Quan and Nguyen Van Dai.
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