{"id":48482,"date":"2022-09-14T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/vietnam-climate-activists-united-nations-human-rights"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:01:04","slug":"leading-environmentalists-decry-crackdown-on-vietnam-climate-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48482","title":{"rendered":"Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country\u2019s bid to join UN\u2019s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 winners of the world\u2019s most prestigious environmental prize are calling on the UN to reject a bid by Vietnam to join the international organization\u2019s human rights council (UNHRC) amid a crackdown on the country\u2019s climate activists.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/khanh-nguy-thi-support-letter\">a letter sent on Wednesday<\/a>, 52 past winners of the Goldman prize for environmentalists have urged the UNHRC to vote against the application from Vietnam, where authorities have this year jailed four climate leaders on disputed tax charges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/vietnam-climate-activists-united-nations-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country\u2019s bid to join UN\u2019s human rights council over its jailing of campaignersMore than 50 winners of the world\u2019s most prestigious environmental prize are calling on the UN to reject a bid by Vietnam to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,589,65,84,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coal","category-environment","category-united-nations","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48483,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48482\/revisions\/48483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}