The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights urges U.N. member states to press Vietnam to commit to...improvements when it examines the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Vietnam…In a Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Council submitted with the FIDH (International Federation on Human Rights), the VCHR…detailed cases of arbitrary detention, religious persecution, crack-downs on bloggers, netizens and human rights defenders, censorship of the press and Internet, abuses of worker rights, inhumane detention conditions, state confiscation of lands and the widespread use of the death penalty. It also raised grave concerns on women’s rights, such as sex-trafficking, denial of land rights and coercive birth control policies…