Vietnam

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
$32,000
To strengthen the capacity of Vietnamese organizations and activists to support and defend human rights. Forum Asia will train Vietnamese activists on human rights advocacy skills as well as link them to their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries in an effort to strengthen an emerging civil society movement in Vietnam.

Association of Vietnamese Overseas : Culture & Liaison
$97,000
To promote human rights and democratic values in Vietnam. Quê Me will conduct advocacy campaigns drawing international attention to human rights conditions and the efforts of prodemocracy activists inside the country.

Human Rights
$78,000
To build the capacity of Vietnamese organizations and activists to support and defend human rights and civil society. The project will train lawyers and other activists on human rights advocacy skills, project management, and community organizing as well as link them to their counterparts in other ASEAN countries, in an effort to strengthen an emerging grassroots civil society movement in Vietnam.

Overseas Organization to Support the Humanist Movement in Vietnam
$38,000
To provide accurate information to the citizens of Vietnam about events in Vietnam and international affairs related to Vietnam, and to engage the Vietnamese public in discussing democratic ideas. The project will provide democracy education and news through Internet radio, including call-in shows and other forums for interactive listener engagement.

Grant descriptions are from the 2012 NED Annual Report.