The CCPR gave the Vietnamese government a 29 March 2021 deadline to provide such information, as part of the committee’s follow-up procedure. The Vietnamese government’s submission, received by the CCPR on 29 March 2021, contains a profusion of plans, roadmaps, studies, workshops, and reports that seem to be aimed solely at vindicating the government’s adherence to a restrictive national legislative framework that is totally incompatible with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). In reality, the government’s submission has failed to provide any evidence of significant action taken towards the implementation of the recommendation made by the CCPR.
The FIDH-VCHR joint follow-up submission details the government’s failure to take any steps towards the implementation of the recommendations made by the CCPR on all three key priority issues. In addition, FIDH and VCHR submit that, since March 2019, the government has taken measures that are, in fact, contrary to the recommendations made by the CCPR. As a result, FIDH and VCHR recommend the CCPR give the lowest grade (E) in its assessment of the government’s implementation of the three priority recommendations.
Read the joint submission below: