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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...
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...
Thailand’s screening mechanism: what it offers a Dega refugee
Thailand has no refugee law. It has one procedure, written in 2019 and switched on in September 2023, that can give a person who cannot go home a Thai status called “Protected Person.” In its first thirty months it produced seven of them, out of an urban caseload of more than five thousand five hundred. All seven were granted in the first thirte...
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