Submission to UN Human Rights Office
Electronically typed submission from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 May 2018, ff. 8. This submission was created...
Protesting Vietnamese activists' sentences
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 6 April 2018; heading: «Letter of Protest Condemning Human Right Violations in Vietnam in light of the Recent Trial...
Protesting new cyber security law
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 12 June 2018; heading: «Letter of Objection: Protesting Vietnam’s New Cyber Security Law Granting Unlimited Powers to Infringe on...
Protesting Chinese lease of Vietnamese territory
Electronically typed call to action from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Oviedo, 6 June 2018, in bulletin HS: 2018/TB/KT03, ff....
Liệu Hữu Lê
Photograph of Liệu Hữu Lê, vice-president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Liệu Hữu Lê, who is affectionately known as 'the cowboy poet' amongst Centre members, was one of...
Anh Sơn Nguyễn (Sean Nguyen)
Photograph of Anh Sơn Nguyễn (Sean Nguyen), secretary general of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Nguyen was one of the main organisors of a literary camp held by the...
Vietnamese Abroad Centre's 40th anniversary
Photograph of guests at a gala held to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre. This event, which was held in Washington on 31 March 2018, was...
Centre's 11th Congress in Toronto
Collage of photographs of members of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre at the Centre's 11th Congress, which was held in Toronto on 15-17 December 2017. Lloyd Duong, president of the...
Tuyết Nga Thị Nguyễn
Photograph of Tuyết Nga Thị Nguyễn, treasurer of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Nguyễn, whose pen-name is Tuyết Nga, is affectionately known as Nụ cười Văn Bút - 'the...
Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong)
Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Upon becoming president, Lloyd Duong, who left Vietnam as a refugee when he was a...
Nguyễn Đăng Tuấn
Photograph of Nguyễn Đăng Tuấn, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2009-11).
Vũ Văn Tùng
Photograph of Vũ Văn Tùng, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2011-17). During his presidency the author and pharmacist Vũ Văn Tùng received charity status for Centre.
Duong assists Tai A Chau
Photograph of Lloyd Duong (Dương Thành Lợi), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20), interviewing Tai A Chau, a Vietnamese asylum seeker living in a detention centre in Hong...
Viên Linh
Photograph of Viên Linh (pen-name of Nguyễn Nam), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1993-95). In 1974 Viên Linh won the Vietnam National Literature Prize for his novel Gió...
Phạm Quang Trình
Photograph of Phạm Quang Trình, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2003-05).
Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn
Photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1989-90). During his presidency the author and media personality Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn helped to formulate the Centre’s by-laws...
Trang Châu Lê Văn Châu
Photograph of Trang Châu Lê Văn Châu (Trang Châu), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1991-92). In the 1980s Lê Văn Châu volunteered in missions to help refugees leaving...
Lloyd Duong as a young man
Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20) at aged fourteen. Lloyd Duong left Vietnam on a small boat with twenty-six other refugees...
Trần Thanh Hiệp
Photograph of Trần Thanh Hiệp, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1984-88). During his presidency the writer and attorney Trần Thanh Hiệp expanded the Vietnamese Abroad Centre by bringing...