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VIET NAM
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Title:
Viet Nam: General Logistics and Planning Map
Source:
United Nations. World Food Programme. Logistics Cluster.
Date of Document:
11 October 2011
Accessed Date:
2 February 2017
Title:
Viêt Nam. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
19 March 2013
Title:
Vietnam. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
15 February 2022
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
DFAT Country Information Report: Vietnam
Source:
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date of Document:
11 January 2022
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Report of a Home Office fact-finding mission to Vietnam
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
9 September 2019
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Vietnam. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
22 February 2022
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Mental healthcare. Version 1.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office
Date of Document:
May 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Viet Nam: As Ho Chi Minh City extends Covid-19 restrictions, militarized response must respect human rights
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
13 September 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
17 December 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
26 October 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Viet Nam. Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 April 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Vietnam. World Report 2022: Events of 2021.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam. Freedom in the World 2021.
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Viet Nam
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/32/VNM/1
Date of Document:
14 November 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
No Country for Human Rights Activists
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 June 2017
Accessed Date:
2 February 2018
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/32/VNM/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
15 November 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Viet Nam
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
29 August 2019
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Viet Nam
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/32/VNM/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
6 November 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Vietnam: Crackdown on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
19 June 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Joint Submission of The 88 Project and the Global Human Rights Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School to the Universal Periodic Review of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Source:
The 88 Project; The Global Human Rights Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School
Date of Document:
1 November 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Law on Vietnamese Nationality
Accessed Date:
16 November 2012
Title:
Vietnam. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam's Household Registration System
Source:
World Bank Group; Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Date of Document:
June 2016
Accessed Date:
2 February 2017
Title:
Joint Circular Amending and Supplementing Article 13 of the Joint Circular No. 05/2010/TTLT/BTP-BNG-BCA, of March 01, 2010 of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security Guiding Implementation of...
Source:
Viet Nam. Ministry of Foreign Affairs et al.
Date of Document:
31 January 2013
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Decree No. 78/2009/ND-CP of September 22, 2009, detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality
Date of Document:
22 September 2009
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Decree No. 97/2014/ND-CP dated October 17, 2014, amending Decree No. 78/2009ND-CP stipulating in detail and guiding the implementation of the Law on Vietnamese nationality
Date of Document:
17 October 2014
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Report on citizenship law: Vietnam
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
September 2017
Accessed Date:
20 February 2018
Title:
Viêt Nam : Aménagements concernant la réintégration de Vietnamiens d'outre-mer dans la nationalité vietnamienne (2014) et contrôle des antécédents judiciaires des personnes de retour au Viêt Nam
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
15 March 2017
Accessed Date:
20 February 2018
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Opposition to the State. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
September 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Viêt Nam : Les évolutions du régime de parti unique et la répression des dissidents
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
25 April 2016
Accessed Date:
2 February 2017
Title:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Election for Quoc-Hoi (Vietnamese National Assembly) of 23 May 2021.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
18 August 2021
Title:
Vietnam: Independent Political Candidate Faces Charges
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 December 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
About parliament. Viet Nam: National Assembly.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Viet Nam. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
12 December 2019
Title:
Domestic violence, including legislation, state protection and support services (2011-December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 December 2015
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Law No. 02/2007/QH12 on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control
Accessed Date:
24 February 2017
Title:
Review of 10 Years of implementing the Law on Gender Equality.
Source:
United Nations Population Fund; Ministry of Labor- Invalids and Social Affairs
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Policy Brief. The Law on Gender Equality
Source:
United Nations Population Fund et al.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Living conditions and treatment of educated adult women relocated to Hanoi (2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
24 January 2014
Accessed Date:
26 February 2016
Title:
Divorce, including availability of divorce to women, associated costs, support services available to divorced women and single mothers; whether the government mandates financial support and/or child support to ex-spouses; treatment of divorce...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
11 February 2016
Accessed Date:
26 February 2016
Title:
Law No. 52/2014/QH13 on Marriage and Family
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
National Study on Violence against Women in Viet Nam 2019. Summary Report
Source:
United Nations Population Fund et al.
Author:
Kristin Diemer et al.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Policy Brief. Ending Gender-Based Violence at Home in Viet Nam.
Source:
United Nations Population Fund in Viet Nam
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Viet Nam. Addendum: Information provided by Viet Nam in follow-up to the concluding observations.
Code:
CEDAW/C/VNM/CO/7-8/Add.1
Date of Document:
25 January 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Combined fifth and sixth periodic reports submitted by Viet Nam under article 44 of the Convention, due in 2017
Date of Document:
3 March 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
During the epidemic... I was beaten with bruises all the time.
Source:
The Institute for Social Development Studies and Hanoi School of Public Health
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Country Gender Equality Profile. Viet Nam 2021
Source:
United Nations. UN Women
Date of Document:
October 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Viet Nam: Report on the Implementation of the ICCPR On Gender Equality (Replies to the List of Issues CCPR/C/VNM/Q/3)
Source:
Center for Education Promotion and Empowerment of Women
Date of Document:
4 February 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Unaccompanied children. Version 1.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
September 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Transgender at Work: Livelihoods for Transgender People in Vietnam
Source:
Institute of Development Studies. Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population.
Date of Document:
1 February 2016
Author:
Tu-Anh Hoang; Pauline Oosterhoff
Accessed Date:
2 February 2017
Title:
Viêt Nam : Les minorités sexuelles et de genre
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
8 February 2019
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
“My Teacher Said I Had a Disease”: Barriers to the Right to Education for LGBT Youth in Vietnam
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
12 February 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Vietnam. Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Zhan Chiam et al.
Accessed Date:
18 February 2021
Title:
Dare to dream: The ongoing voyage from invisibility to community empowerment, and foray into the region for LGBTIQ in Vietnam.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. ILGA Asia.
Date of Document:
11 June 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Vietnam: Tier 2 Watch List. Trafficking in Persons Report 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Vietnam.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
5 August 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Fear of illegal moneylenders. Version 1.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office
Date of Document:
December 2018
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam: Returned victims of trafficking: Issues affecting the likelihood of re-trafficking
Source:
Asylos; ARC Foundation
Date of Document:
6 May 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Victims of trafficking. Version 4.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
April 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Vietnam Corruption Report
Source:
GAN Integrity. Risk and Compliance Portal.
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
2020 Human Rights Report Vietnam. Our Report on Political Prisoners and Activists at Risk
Date of Document:
6 April 2021
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Update: Vietnam Legal Research
Date of Document:
February 2017
Author:
Anh Luu; Le Thi Hanh
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Concluding observations on the initial report of Viet Nam
Source:
United Nations. Committee Against Torture.
Date of Document:
28 December 2018
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Criminal Code No. 100/2015/QH13
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code No. 100/2015/QH13
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Criminal Procedure Code No. 101/2015/QH13
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Resolution on the Implementation of the Criminal Procedure Code
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Penal Code No. 15/1999/QH10
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Criminal Procedure Code No. 19/2003/QH11
Source:
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Whether more than one criminal code can be in effect at once and which criminal code is currently in effect (2015–March 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 March 2021
Accessed Date:
27 August 2021
Title:
Information received from Viet Nam on follow-up to the concluding observations on its initial report
Date of Document:
9 October 2020
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Vietnam. The Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide.
Source:
University of Pretoria. Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam. Freedom on the Net 2021.
Editor:
Elisha Aaron et al.
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
‘Let Us Breathe!': Censorship and Criminalization of Online Expression in Viet Nam
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
1 December 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Dictating the Internet: Curtailing Free Expression and Information Online in Vietnam.
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of Document:
December 2020
Author:
Dhevy Sivaprakasam
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam. International Religious Freedom Report for 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Vietnam. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Annual Report 2021.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Situation and treatment of Buddhist monks by authorities, including arrests and torture by the police (2012-November 2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 November 2013
Accessed Date:
29 January 2014
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt. Addendum. Mission to Viet Nam (21 to 31 July 2014).
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
30 January 2015
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Persecuting “Evil Way” Religion: Abuses against Montagnards in Vietnam
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
26 June 2015
Editor:
Brad Adams et al.
Accessed Date:
3 February 2017
Title:
Religious Freedom in Vietnam: Assessing the Country of Particular Concern Designation 10 Years After its Removal
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
February 2017
Accessed Date:
2 February 2018
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Hoa Hao Buddhism. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
February 2020
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Vietnam Country Update: Religious Prisoners of Conscience in Vietnam
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
June 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
Title:
Hoa Hao Buddhism [Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo], including regional distribution of followers and whether there are regional differences in treatment by authorities (2018–April 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
4 May 2021
Accessed Date:
24 August 2021
Title:
Viet Nam : Le controle des autorités sur les revendications irrédentistes imputées de la minorité khmère krom
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
29 May 2018
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Ethnic and religious minority groups. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam Query Response: The treatment of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam: Hmongs and Montagnards
Source:
Asylum Research Consultancy
Date of Document:
19 July 2017
Accessed Date:
2 February 2018
Title:
Vietnam. The Indigenous World 2021.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
16 August 2021
Title:
Vietnam. Submission to the Human Rights Committee Relating To The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights and Tai Studies Center
Date of Document:
4 February 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Consequences for a returnee who exited the country illegally, such as through the use of fraudulent foreign visas
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 March 2014
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Q & A on the Right to Freedom of Movement in Vietnam
Source:
Civil Rights Defenders
Date of Document:
14 September 2015
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Law on Exit and Entry of Vietnamese Citizens. Law Guide.
Source:
Vietnam Law and Legal Forum
Date of Document:
17 August 2020
Accessed Date:
2 February 2021
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 2 March 2022:
Title:
Vietnam. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020.
Additional Info.:
Addendum regarding reproductive rights was added on 4 November 2021
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/vietnam
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
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