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What the United Nations has said
Our people have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty years: in our own submissions, in the findings of the treaty bodies that examine Vietnam, in the reports of experts who visited, in letters from independent experts to the governments of Vietnam and Thailand, and in the Secretary-General’s reports on reprisals. This page...
The laws used against us
Almost every one of our prisoners of the last twenty-five years was convicted under a handful of articles of Vietnam’s Criminal Code. Most are national security offenses written so broadly that praying in an unregistered church, talking to a foreign diplomat, posting on Facebook or crossing the border can be made to fit them. This page sets out...
The Law on Belief and Religion (2018)
Vietnam’s Law on Belief and Religion came into force on January 1, 2018. It makes worship lawful only through a registered, state-approved organization. For Dega house churches, which have never been allowed to register as themselves, it turned an old practice into statute. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that it “unduly restricts” freed...
Vietnam and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On September 13, 2007, Vietnam voted for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and said nothing. Twenty-nine states explained their votes that day. Vietnam was not among them; it appears in the record of that meeting exactly once, in the list of the 143 in favor. In the years since it has told four separate UN mechanisms that the D...
Schools, language and the university gap
Our children start school in a language they do not speak, under a rule that is written in no decree: Vietnamese only in the classroom. Primary school nearly works. By fifteen the system has lost half of them. A Rhade teacher will pretend not to understand a Rhade child who asks him a question, because that is what he has been told to do, and a...
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