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What the Dega ask for
Three aims, rooted in FULRO’s first declarations of 1964 and 1965 and set down in this form before the United Nations in 1993, pursued since October 1992 by peaceful means only. Beneath them, the rights the world now recognizes for indigenous peoples, every one of which has been taken from us; and at the end, four things a government that wanted...
What Vietnam signed, and what happens in the highlands
Vietnam has ratified the major human rights treaties, voted for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and has sat as a member of the United Nations since 1977. The obligations are not disputed and they are not optional. Set against them is the record in the Central Highlands, documented by the United Nations’ own bodies. This page...
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...
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...
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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