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Reports and documents
The human rights record of our people since 1975 is written mainly in reports: by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, by the United Nations, by governments, and by our own organizations. This page lists the ones we rely on, in order, with what each contains and where to find it. Most are free to read, and many are in our own library.
What Washington has said
The United States recruited, armed and paid tens of thousands of our men, and since 1986 has given many of their families a home. Congress has come back to us again and again, in hearings, in resolutions and in the reports of its own researchers, and the executive branch has twice treated Vietnam’s religious persecution as a matter of policy. Th...
Stateless in our own country
Thousands of highland families in Vietnam have no identity papers. Without them a child cannot enroll in school, a couple cannot register a marriage, a family cannot transfer its land, or see a doctor on public insurance, and no one can lawfully leave the country. These are people born in the highlands to parents born there, with no other nation...
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...
Our defenders and prisoners
These are the records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, whose cases are well enough documented to set down in full: pastors and deacons of the house churches, a man who wrote down the names of other prisoners, a man who met American diplomats. Most were convicted of “undermining national unity.”...
Ha Mon: the Catholic movement the state calls an “evil way”
In a village on the Krong Poko, in the last years before the water came, a Bahnar woman named Y Gyin said that the Mother of God had appeared to her and had told her people to gather, to pray, and not to let themselves be moved. Within four years the reservoir was over the ground she named. Within eleven the state had run public denunciation mee...
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