Human Rights Issues in China and Vietnam in the Context of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Activities

Non-governmental human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (hereinafter HRW and AI) make a great contribution to the development and study of human rights throughout the world. Despite this, the annual reports of these organizations on the human rights situation around the globe have been little studied. This paper presents an analysis of the human rights situation in China and Vietnam (countries where human rights perceptions differ from the Western concept of human rights) based on HRW and AI reports from 2000 to 2020. The main trends in the implementation of human rights, as well as the problems that these two international non-governmental organizations draw attention to during the last two decades, are examined. The comparison reveals differences in how HRW, AI assess the situation, on the one hand, and the governments of China and Vietnam, on the other, along with differences in evaluating the two countries.