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News, Forest Watch

Smallholders and civil society must be an integral part of EU support for Vietnam’s due diligence implementation

Increasing civil society and smallholder capacity and participation is essential to the success of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement and implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation.

12/12/2023

Reports

How to tackle labour rights in the EU-Vietnam wood furniture trade

Vietnam is one of the world’s leading wood processing hubs and the European Union is a high value, strategic market for its wood and wooden furniture. Around 600,000 people are employed in wood processing and furniture manufacturing in Vietnam. Little has been said about labour rights in Vietnam’s wood sector.  This report aims to rectify this.  It is based on in-depth interviews with a sample of 40 workers from various sections of different wood processing and furniture manufacturing companies supplying to the EU. 

07/11/2023

Le règlement européen sur la déforestation ne doit pas mettre en péril les moyens de subsistance des producteurs de café vietnamiens

Au Vietnam, les moyens d’existence déjà précaires des petits producteurs de café ne doivent pas être davantage mis à mal par le Règlement de l’UE sur la déforestation, a déclaré Mme Vu Thi Bich Hop, directrice du Center for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD)

15/12/2022

Forest Watch

FLEGT VPA paved the way for the US-Vietnam Timber Agreement

A US-Vietnam agreement underscores FLEGT’s broad impact

09/11/2021

So far, EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement delivers only for trade

Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.

16/09/2021

Les omissions du décret vietnamien sur la légalité du bois sont aussi inquiétantes que son champ d’application restreint

Le 1er septembre 2020, le gouvernement du Viêt Nam a publié le très attendu décret sur le système de vérification de la légalité du bois, qui régit la mise en œuvre des aspects de l’accord de partenariat volontaire (APV) FLEGT...

16/11/2020

News, Events

Webinaires sur les consultations de l'UE et du Royaume-Uni sur les propositions de réglementation visant à mettre fin à la déforestation

Les points clé des webinaires : 

Les webinaires tenus en portugais, anglais, français et espagnol ont été suivis par plus de 100 participants issus de la société civile de pays producteurs, ainsi que des ONG et des bailleurs de...

28/09/2020

Annual Reports

Annual Report 2019

The world’s forests, and the rights of many who depend on them, remained under assault in 2019.

These attacks came from many directions: from the erosion of environmental and human rights protections in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro, to the Amazon fires; from the EU’s devastating bioenergy policy, to its raft of Free Trade Agreements with forested countries to increase our insatiable consumption of products that drive deforestation; from a lack of secure tenure rights for people depending on forests for their survival, to failures of transparency and accountability in the forest sector… 

23/06/2020

Blogs

What comes first with the EU-Vietnam trade deal, rights or ratification?

Guest Blog: Campaigner Lindsay Duffield explains some of the challenges ahead to make sure the EU-Vietnam trade agreement doesn‘t undermine human rights or climate change commitments.

22/01/2020