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Land law and customary land
In Vietnam no one owns land: it belongs to “the entire people,” and the state manages it. What families hold are rights to use it, recorded in certificates called red books. For highland villages, whose land was held by clans and lineages, rested in fallow for years and was defined by custom rather than surveys, this system has been the legal me...
Vietnam and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On September 13, 2007, Vietnam voted for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It has never accepted that the Declaration applies to anyone inside Vietnam. This page sets out the vote, the position Vietnam has taken since, and what UN treaty bodies have said about it.
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