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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.
Customary law and the village court
Before any state reached the highlands, our villages had law: rules on land, marriage, debt and injury, judged by the headman and elders and enforced by fines paid in buffaloes, jars and gongs. The French wrote some of it down and built courts on it; the Saigon government set out to replace it and then, after the 1964 revolt and the highland lea...
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