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Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word matters
International law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights. One protects minorities. The other protects indigenous peoples, and it goes much further: it deals in land, consent and a people’s own institutions, not only in tolerance. Which one applies to the Dega turns on a single contested word. Vietnam says it has no indigenous peopl...
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...
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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