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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 schools, and the language they are not taught in
In a century and a half our children have been taught in our languages for only a few short stretches: by the Kon Tum missionaries, in the French schools of Darlac, in the Protestant mission schools, and in a bilingual program the Republic of Vietnam ran with American money in its last years. Every government since 1955 has in the end made the c...
Land law and customary land
In Vietnam nobody owns land. The land belongs to the entire people, the State represents the people, and what a family holds is a right to use, written on a certificate with red covers. That arrangement did not have to be aimed at us to take our country from us. A registry that records the field a family is cropping this season, in one household...
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...
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...
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