Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook’s operations in Viet Nam

Hosted by Legal Initiatives for Vietnam, in partnership with ARTICLE 19 and CLARITI.

Legal Initiatives for Vietnam (LIV), in collaboration with ARTICLE 19 and CLARITI, is pleased to invite you to a presentation of our latest Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of Facebook’s operations in Vietnam,  published on May 31st, 2025. The HRIA explores how Facebook’s practices impact fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, privacy, and civic engagement within Viet Nam’s restrictive digital landscape.

Read the full report here: link

Date: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (Taipei time / GMT+8)
Location and Registration: Zoom (link will be sent upon registration)

Moderator:

Trịnh Hữu Long: Aside from being a member of Legal Initiatives for Vietnam’s (LIV) leadership, he is in charge of Luật Khoa Magazine, a Vietnamese publication covering Vietnam’s law and politics. He began his career in 2008 as a legal counsel for some companies in Hà Nội and became a democracy advocate and journalist in 2011. He has worked for various media and human rights organizations such as Tia Sáng magazine (2011-2012), Tuổi Trẻ newspaper (2012), and VOICE (2013-2016).

He has a background in law and Asia-Pacific studies, specializing in Vietnam’s constitutional law, freedom of expression, internet freedom, and criminal justice, as well as Taiwan’s democratization. He has written and translated several books in politics and has been an author of the Vietnam Chapter of Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net reports since 2021. He earned a bachelor in law (LL.B) from Hanoi Law University in 2008 and a master’s degree in Asia-Pacific studies from Taiwan’s National Chengchi University in 2024.

Speakers:

• Hoàng Minh Trang: Hoàng Minh Trang is a human rights consultant and researcher. She started working in the human rights field in 2019 and her focus is digital rights and freedom of expression. Over the past few years she has collaborated with various organizations. Trang received Erasmus Mundus scholarship in 2020 to study in 4 European countries and completed her master’s degree in Human Rights Policy and Practice in 2023.
• H Biap Krong (Becky): She is a Montagnard human rights advocate and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vietnam. She has more than 10 years of experience working in the human rights field in religious rights, minority rights, and land rights. She was the primary coordinator of the Saudi Arabia-focused component of BPSOS’ Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA). She had worked as a community outreach and interpreter staff member for the UNHCR’s Bangkok office. She has spoken at many regional and international forums on the rights of women, minorities, and indigenous peoples. In 2021, she was among the ten individuals, out of more than 2,000 applicants from across the globe, selected to join the Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements (IDREAM), a 14-month training and mentoring program for human rights defenders in exile organized by the Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of Torture. In June 2022, she spoke at the Grassroots Protection for Religious Persecution of Women and Minorities panel in Washington, DC. In May 2024, the Australian National University invited her to participate in a law research project. The Department of Human Rights and Peace Studies of Mahidol University invited her to review “Protecting the Rights of Victims of Human Trafficking: Some Issues with Vietnamese Law in the Context of Globalization.” In May 2024, she completed a research project on religious issues in Vietnam funded by USCIRF.

Agenda:

• 30 min – Presentation by the researchers
• 60 min – Open Q&A with participants

Join us for a critical conversation about tech accountability, platform governance, and digital rights in authoritarian contexts.

This is a public event. All are welcome. Please feel free to share widely.