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What the United Nations has said
The Dega have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty years — in our own submissions, in the findings of treaty bodies that examine Vietnam, and in letters from independent experts to the Vietnamese government. This page is a register of the ones we can link to, in order, with what each actually said.
The laws used against us
Almost every Dega prisoner of the last twenty-five years was convicted under a handful of articles of Vietnam’s Penal Code. Most are national-security offenses written so broadly that praying in an unregistered church, talking to a foreign diplomat or crossing the border can be made to fit them. This page sets out those articles, their penalties...
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 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.
Schools, language and the university gap
Most Dega children start school in a language they do not speak at home, often taught by teachers who do not speak theirs. Fewer finish secondary school than their Vietnamese neighbors, and very few reach university. The UN Human Rights Committee has expressed concern that minority communities in Vietnam “suffer from discrimination, including wi...
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