US Supreme Court Justice Promotes Equality, Free Press in Vietnam

For the sake of social justice, Vietnam needs judges and journalists who don’t face retaliation for handling touchy subjects, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said this week, citing progress in her home country as a possible example. Ginsburg, a lifetime advocate for racial and sexual equality, told an audience in Ho Chi Minh City about the “not so good old days” when the U.S. justice system didn’t protect women. As a law student at Harvard, Ginsburg took classes in a...

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