Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MITCHELL Jon
’71 Pentagon paper says Agent Orange was stored on Kadena Air Base
A single sentence buried among 7,000 pages of documents recently released by the Pentagon might well be the needle in the haystack that conclusively proves the U.S. military stored toxic herbicides, including Agent Orange, in (...)
, by UHL Michael
FOLLOWING AN EARLY April round of visits in private residences and care facilities with children suffering from a range of debilitating birth anomalies, classified by the Vietnamese government as “victims of agent orange,” a delegation of six American veterans sponsored by Veterans for Peace (...)
, by AN Dien, DILLINGHAM Jon, LAVALLARD Hélène, SMOGER Gerson H.
By Jon Dillingham
Thanh Nien — August 10, 2009, was the first Orange Day organised in Vietnam –- not only to be remembered by victims of Agent Orange but to mark Vietnam’s common pain. Those responsible for exposing Vietnamese citizens and US troops to toxic defoliants kept silent about known (...)
, by CHENG Eva
On April 29, eight solidarity groups from across Europe adopted a Public Appeal of International Lawyers issued in December that calls on the US government to honour its responsibility towards the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Used during the Vietnam War, this dioxin-rich defoliant is (...)
, by Green Left Weekly
Vietnam,
Nearly 700,000 people have signed an international online petition in solidarity with Vietnam’s victims of Agent Orange, which was sprayed extensively by the US military during the Vietnam War. The petition, which was launched in 2004, will be presented to the judges of the US Court of (...)
, by Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
Paris (VNA) – Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin have garnered further support at the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Mar. 27.
Speaking at the meeting, André Bouny, Chairman of the international committee in support for the Vietnamese Agent Orange (...)
, by CHENG Eva
Through its Vietnam ambassador, the Bush administration announced on February 9 that it will fund 40% of a US$1 million plan to study how to clean up a former US military base in Vietnam that is contaminated by dioxin, a class-one human carcinogen. Dioxin was a key ingredient in Agent Orange, a (...)
, by CHENG Eva
Many of the 2.6 million US soldiers who served in the Vietnam War have contracted cancer and a cocktail of serious health problems that they believe to be directly linked to their exposure to the dioxin-contaminated defoliant Agent Orange. The US military sprayed Agent Orange heavily in some (...)
, by LE Thanh Thuy
Hanoi,
Her body is that of a two-year-old, deformed and limp. And yet, Truong thi Thuong is 16, a brilliant student in the village of Phu Dong (in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam province).
With a dark, stern look on his face, Truong Cong Bay haltingly tells the story of Truong thi Thuong, his (...)
, by CHENG Eva
Backed by the Vietnamese government, in January 2004 a few of Vietnam’s estimated 3-4 million surviving victims of Agent Orange, the chemical weapon widely used by the US during the Vietnam War, brought a lawsuit in a US district court against nearly 40 US chemical companies. The case was (...)
, by CHENG Eva
Even though the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, the US’s saturation chemical bombing is still wreaking havoc on millions, including the newly born - making them third-generation victims. Nobody knows when the congenital deformities, one of many horrific health consequences of the toxic (...)
, by VAVAO
To: The U.S. President and others
AGENT ORANGE, THE CHEMICAL, has killed, is still killing, and causing great suffering to over three million people in Vietnam. PLEASE HELP THEM BY SIGNING THIS PETITION. We welcome and support the Civil Action brought by the Vietnam Association of (...)
, by MYERS Allen
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