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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:
Medical Country of Origin Information Report. Provision of Healthcare in Vietnam.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
August 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
10 June 2025
Accessed Date:
18 June 2025
Title:
DFAT Country Information Report: Vietnam
Source:
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date of Document:
19 February 2025
Accessed Date:
11 June 2025
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 2024 Country Report.
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Date of Document:
March 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
16 May 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: Psychiatry. Medical Country of Origin Information.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
September 2024
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: HIV/AIDs. Medical Country of Origin Information.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
September 2024
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
19 May 2024
Title:
Viet Nam. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2025.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
April 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. Freedom in the World 2024.
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
National report submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21: Viet Nam
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/46/VNM/1
Date of Document:
22 February 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect
Date of Document:
19 December 2024
Accessed Date:
18 June 2025
Title:
Viet Nam: Compilation of information
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/46/VNM/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
27 February 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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.6/46/VNM/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
21 February 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Concluding observations on the initial report of Viet Nam
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Date of Document:
28 April 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
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
Title:
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
3 October 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Viêt Nam : Arrestations de militants du Việt Tân issus de la diaspora
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
22 August 2022
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
Report on Human Rights in Vietnam 2021-2022
Source:
Vietnam Human Rights Network
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
Fourth periodic report submitted by Viet Nam under article 40 of the Covenant, due in 2023
Date of Document:
27 April 2023
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
The 2024 Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI 2024): Measuring Citizens' Experiences
Source:
Centre for Community Support and Development Studies et al.
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: Free Journalist Arrested for Dissent
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
September 2024
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
A history of violence: Repression of the right to freedom of assembly in Vietnam
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights; The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
Date of Document:
June 2023
Author:
Penelope Faulkner
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Alternative report on the List of Issues related to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for the Fourth Reporting Cycle of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Source:
Defend the Defenders et al.
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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:
18 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam's Household Registration System
Source:
World Bank Group; Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Date of Document:
June 2016
Author:
Gabriel Demombynes et al.
Editor:
Nguyen Phuong Mai
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
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
Accessed Date:
19 July 2023
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:
Vietnam's digital identity transformation taking shape
Source:
BiometricUpdate.com
Date of Document:
29 July 2024
Author:
Ghulam Shabir Arain
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
The household registration (hộ khẩu) system, including whether an adult child continues to be included in their parent's hộ khẩu and whether the parent can use the hộ khẩu to locate their child in the country (2020-June 2022)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 June 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Residence Law. Law No. 68/2020/QH14
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
Vietnam Issues Draft Rules on Foreigner's Electronic Identification Registration
Date of Document:
20 March 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Opposition to the State. Version 4.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
August 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam : Les évolutions politiques, le contrôle de l'expression publique et les conditions légales de retour des Việt-Kiều
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
23 December 2024
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Viet Nam: National Assembly.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Country Report N°5. Women in Vietnamese Society.
Source:
Hanns Seidel Foundation et al.
Editor:
Nguyen Tien Thang
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
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. 13/2022/QH15 on Prevention and Combat Against Domestic Violence
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Country Gender Equality Profile: Viet Nam 2021
Source:
United Nations. UN Women et al.
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:
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:
Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Viet Nam
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Date of Document:
21 October 2022
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Ninth periodic report submitted by Viet Nam under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2019
Date of Document:
3 August 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Unaccompanied children. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
February 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Spotlight Report. Situation of Persons of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in Vietnam for the 2023 Voluntary National Review of Vietnam.
Source:
Institute for Studies of Society, Economy & Environment
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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:
Vietnam Adopts Global LGBT Health Standard
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 August 2022
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
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:
The prevalence of sexual orientation and gender-based violence among LGBTIQ+ people in Vietnam and related factors
Source:
Lighthouse Social Enterprise
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Treatment of individuals based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) by society and authorities, including access to education, employment, housing, and health care, particularly in Hanoi and ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
30 June 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Vietnam: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
Accessed Date:
27 June 2024
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Vietnam.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
4 March 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Fear of illegal moneylenders. Version 3.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
February 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
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: Trafficking. Version 6.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
February 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Marriage Trafficking: Demand, Exploitation, and Conducive Contexts-A Study in China-Vietnam Border Areas
Source:
Violence Against Women
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Submission to the 144th Session of the Human Rights Committee. Viet Nam (Military service, conscientious objection and related issues).
Source:
Conscience and Peace Tax International
Date of Document:
May 2025
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Human Rights Report Vietnam: January 2022 – June 2023
Date of Document:
December 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Date of Document:
April 2022
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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:
19 July 2023
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:
20 July 2023
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
Title:
Summonses (thư triệu tập) and arrest warrants (lệnh bắt) [order of arrest; order for the arrest], content, appearance, security features and samples; governing regulations and issuing authorities, including the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) (Bộ Công An) prevalence of fraudulent judiciary documents; whether a person wanted by the authorities can leave the country with their passport (2020 – May 2022)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 June 2022
Accessed Date:
27 July 2022
Title:
Vietnam Legal Update– Civil and political rights, July, 2022
Date of Document:
30 July 2022
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Weaponizing the Law to Prosecute the Vietnam Four
Date of Document:
April 2023
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
“We'll All Be Arrested Soon': Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam's “Infringing on State Interests' Law
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 April 2025
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its ninety-sixth session, 27 March–5 April 2023: Opinion No. 22/2023 concerning Đặng Đình Bách (Viet Nam)
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
26 May 2023
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee During its Periodic Review of Vietnam under the ICCPR at its 144th Session
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
May 2025
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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:
13 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. Freedom on the Net 2024.
Editor:
Amelia Larson et al.
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: Repeal Harmful Internet Laws
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 December 2024
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
New restrictions on freedom of expression in Vietnam
Date of Document:
22 January 2025
Author:
Michael Altman-Lupu; Ben Swanton
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
An analysis of Decree 147 on social media
Date of Document:
18 February 2025
Author:
Micheal Altman-Lupu; Ben Swanton
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam. International Religious Freedom Report for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
26 June 2024
Accessed Date:
27 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 2025 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
25 March 2025
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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:
State-Controlled Religion and Religious Freedom in Vietnam
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
September 2024
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Religious Freedom Conditions in Vietnam in 2023
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
September 2023
Author:
Patrick Greenwalt
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Negative Impacts of Religious Persecution on Ten Child Monks at Thiền Am Bên Bờ Vũ Trụ (TABBVT). Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Regarding Vietnam's Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Date of Document:
15 August 2022
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Hoa Hao Buddhism. Version 2.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
January 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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 principles, beliefs, traditions, and ritual practices; situation of followers and treatment by society and authorities; regional distribution of followers and whether there are regional differences ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
13 June 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Viêt Nam : Le contrôle 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
Title:
Treatment of Christians, particularly Roman Catholics, by society and authorities; state protection (2020–June 2022)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 June 2022
Accessed Date:
26 July 2022
Title:
Falun Gong. 7th Translation Edition.
Accessed Date:
4 July 2022
Title:
Falun Dafa (Falun Gong, Falungong); history, details of practice, organizational structures; treatment of practitioners; laws and practice regarding other non-recognized practices and religions
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
26 November 1999
Accessed Date:
7 November 2012
Title:
Zhuan Falun (English Version)
Date of Document:
March 2000
Accessed Date:
4 July 2022
Accessed Date:
4 July 2022
Title:
Canada and China: The Falun Dafa Association of Canada (FDAC); requirements for membership in the FDAC; whether there are genuine Falun Dafa practitioners who are not members of the FDAC; the process undertaken by the FDAC when someone requests a letter vouching for them as a genuine Falun Gong practitioner (2014-September 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 September 2016
Accessed Date:
28 October 2016
Title:
The Two Hand Positions for Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts
Date of Document:
12 June 2001
Accessed Date:
4 July 2022
Date of Document:
13 October 2002
Accessed Date:
4 July 2022
Title:
Characteristics of Hoa-Hao Buddhism
Source:
Tuổi Trẻ Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Civil Society Contributions to the UN Human Rights Committee for Vietnam's List of Issues Prior to Reporting: Freedom of Religion. A Joint Submission.
Source:
Boat People SOS et al.
Date of Document:
January 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Human Rights in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee by CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide).
Date of Document:
May 2025
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Ethnic and religious minority groups. Version 4.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
December 2024
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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 2024.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2024
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. Submission to the Human Rights Committee Relating to the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights; Tai Studies Center
Date of Document:
4 February 2019
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Combined fifteenth to seventeenth periodic reports submitted by Viet Nam under article 9 of the Convention, due in 2015
Date of Document:
20 December 2021
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Consequences of Statelessness on Hmong Christians: The Children of Subdivision 181 in Vietnam – a Case Study
Date of Document:
20 December 2021
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined fifteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of Viet Nam
Code:
CERD/C/VNM/CO/15-17
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
27 December 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Alternative Report for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Concerning the Vietnamese Government Report during the 111th Session
Source:
Vietnam Human Rights Network; Defend the Defenders
Date of Document:
24 October 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Alternative Report to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) in addition to the Government of Vietnam's 4th periodic report: A Joint Submission
Source:
Boat People SOS; Montagnards Stand for Justice
Date of Document:
January 2024
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Thailand: Montagnard Indigenous activist must not be extradited to face torture in Viet Nam
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
10 July 2024
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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:
“Locked Inside Our Home”: Movement Restrictions on Rights Activists in Vietnam
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
17 February 2022
Editor:
Brad Adams et al.
Accessed Date:
5 July 2022
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
Title:
Migration profile: Vietnam
Source:
Integral Human Development
Date of Document:
April 2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam – Immigration Law Amendments to Facilitate Foreigners' Travel to Vietnam
Date of Document:
1 August 2023
Accessed Date:
26 June 2024
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 28 June 2024:
Title:
Vietnam. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
20 June 2024
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/vietnam
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
DFAT Country Information Report: Vietnam
Source:
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date of Document:
11 January 2022
URL:
https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/country-information-report-vietnam.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
14 March 2023
URL:
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/vietnam/presentation-du-vietnam/
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
Viet Nam. Amnesty International Report 2023/24: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
23 April 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POL1072002024ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. World Report 2024: Events of 2023.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/vietnam
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
The 2022 Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI 2022): Measuring citizens' experiences.
Source:
Centre for Community Support and Development Studies et al.
URL:
https://papi.org.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022_PAPI_REPORT_ENG_E-book.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 July 2023
Title:
Vietnam. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/VietNam.html
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Viet Nam: National Assembly.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
URL:
https://data.ipu.org/parliament/VN/VN-LC01/
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Unaccompanied children. Version 1.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
September 2021
URL:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1023386/VNM_CPIN_Unaccompanied_children.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Vietnam.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
21 February 2024
URL:
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/182396b7-4bda-40e2-98c5-1c4093caea15
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Fear of illegal moneylenders. Version 2.0
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
January 2023
URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vietnam-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-fear-of-illegal-moneylenders-vietnam-january-2023-accessible
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Vietnam: Trafficking. Version 5.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
December 2023
URL:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6580205295bf65000d719138/VNM+CPIN+Victims+of+trafficking.pdf
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. The Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide.
Source:
University of Pretoria. Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
URL:
https://www.policinglaw.info/country/vietnam
Accessed Date:
19 July 2023
Title:
Vietnam. Freedom on the Net 2023.
Editor:
Adrian Shahbaz et al.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/vietnam/freedom-net/2023
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 2024 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
1 May 2024
URL:
https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/Vietnam.pdf
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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
URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vietnam-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-ethnic-and-religious-groups-vietnam-february-2022-accessible-version
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam : Situation générale. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
23 December 2023
URL:
http://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/asie/vietnam-1general.htm
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam: Criminalisation and ill-treatment of activists persists as government marks one year on the Human Rights Council
Date of Document:
5 October 2023
URL:
https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/vietnam-criminalisation-and-ill-treatment-of-activists-persists-as-government-marks-one-year-on-the-human-rights-council/
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam: New Wave of Arrests of Critics
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
5 March 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/05/vietnam-new-wave-arrests-critics
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/1703_vnm_nationalite_reintegration.pdf
Accessed Date:
20 February 2018
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
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/160425_vnm_regime_pcv.pdf
Accessed Date:
2 February 2017
Title:
Law No. 02/2007/QH12 on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control
URL:
https://thuvienphapluat.vn/van-ban/EN/Van-hoa-Xa-hoi/Law-No-02-2007-QH12-of-November-21st-2007-on-domestic-violence-prevention-and-control/84027/tieng-anh.aspx
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
URL:
https://vietnam.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/ge_eng.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Policy Brief: The Law on Gender Equality
Source:
United Nations Population Fund et al.
URL:
https://vietnam.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/policy_brief_on_gel_-_eng.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
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
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/02/13/my-teacher-said-i-had-disease/barriers-right-education-lgbt-youth-vietnam
Accessed Date:
2 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
URL:
https://www.ilgaasia.org/s/Country-Report_Vietnam-1-compressed.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Source:
GAN Integrity. Risk and Compliance Portal.
Date of Document:
4 November 2020
URL:
https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/vietnam/
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
The Latest on Southeast Asia: January 19, 2023
Source:
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Date of Document:
19 January 2023
Author:
Karen Lee; Gregory B. Poling
URL:
https://www.csis.org/blogs/latest-southeast-asia/latest-southeast-asia-january-19-2023
Accessed Date:
13 July 2023
Title:
Submission to the 140th Session of the Human Rights Committee for the attention of the country report task force on: Viet Nam (Military service, conscientious objection and related issues)
Source:
Conscience and Peace Tax International
Date of Document:
December 2023
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=1cJsGKycgclvjImzvk3XZOdIztOEDXRddgdJURGTw8PD0n+K/BwtJYRWlpsrcQHICQnjPhkO9I3gwXXB69eQqg==
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Defend the Defenders' Latest Statistics: Vietnam Holds 258 Prisoners of Conscience
Source:
Defend the Defenders
Date of Document:
10 January 2024
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=1cJsGKycgclvjImzvk3XZDwjWEwftEpDWdLHE/FVo7+52DL8Re5uKd4T7IRzdyU63YdQS5seUWNZNs/IdZd1jw==
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
‘Let Us Breathe!': Censorship and Criminalization of Online Expression in Viet Nam
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
1 December 2020
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASA4132432020ENGLISH.pdf
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
URL:
https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Vietnam-Freedom-of-expression-Publications-reports-thematic-reports-2020-ENG.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
Vietnam: Campaign against independent voices barrels forward
Date of Document:
15 December 2021
URL:
https://www.article19.org/resources/vietnam-campaign-against-independent-voices-barrels-forward/
Accessed Date:
20 July 2023
Title:
Vietnam. Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia.
Source:
ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship
Date of Document:
March 2024
URL:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a84777f64b05fa9644483fe/t/65f046d48a3afc68295c0e4f/1710245686132/Manushya+Report+2024+Book+File+%281%29.pdf
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
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
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/28/66/Add.2
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Statelessness of H'mong and Montagnards Resulting from Racial Discrimination. Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in addition to the Government of Vietnam periodic reports.
Source:
Boat People SOS et al.
Date of Document:
September 2023
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=KzddR3ISX+UGm9533Mtadme4BxL7IK/fXTcVV0/vyX0hys2zWAo1/TR6PQgjblNoseTglo60buEigilasS+lkg==
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Q & A on the Right to Freedom of Movement in Vietnam
Source:
Civil Rights Defenders
Date of Document:
14 September 2015
URL:
https://crd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/QA-Vietnam.pdf
Accessed Date:
13 February 2020
Title:
Country Gender Equality Profile: Viet Nam 2021
Source:
United Nations. UN Women et al.
Date of Document:
October 2021
URL:
https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Field%20Office%20ESEAsia/Docs/Publications/2021/10/vn-CGEP_Full.pdf
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
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCCPR%2FCSS%2FVNM%2F33820&Lang=en
Accessed Date:
17 February 2022
Title:
The prevalence of sexual orientation and gender-based violence among LGBTIQ+ people in Vietnam and related factors
Source:
Lighthouse Social Enterprise
URL:
https://tvlgbt.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/d0868a05-a5e2-4625-aae0-12efb5ed2a03.pdf
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
Vietnam. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
URL:
https://ocindex.net/2023/country/vietnam
Accessed Date:
25 June 2024
Title:
“Locked Inside Our Home”: Movement Restrictions on Rights Activists in Vietnam
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
17 February 2022
Editor:
Brad Adams et al.
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/02/17/locked-inside-our-home/movement-restrictions-rights-activists-vietnam
Accessed Date:
5 July 2022
Title:
Vietnam: Psychiatry. Medical Country of Origin Information.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
September 2024
URL:
https://euaa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/2024-09/2024_09_MedCOI_Report_Vietnam_Psychiatry.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: HIV/AIDs. Medical Country of Origin Information.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
September 2024
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2024_09_EUAA_MedCOI_Report_Vietnam_HIV.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect
Date of Document:
19 December 2024
URL:
https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/activists-journalists-and-bloggers-arrested-and-jailed-while-new-decrees-to-control-associations-and-the-internet-come-into-effect/
Accessed Date:
18 June 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the initial report of Viet Nam
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Date of Document:
28 April 2025
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/CRPD/C/VNM/CO/1
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: Free Journalist Arrested for Dissent
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
September 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/08/vietnam-free-journalist-arrested-dissent
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam's digital identity transformation taking shape
Source:
BiometricUpdate.com
Date of Document:
29 July 2024
Author:
Ghulam Shabir Arain
URL:
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202407/vietnams-digital-identity-transformation-taking-shape
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam : Les évolutions politiques, le contrôle de l'expression publique et les conditions légales de retour des Việt-Kiều
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
23 December 2024
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2412_vnm_regime_politique_et_retour_des_viet_kieu_164230_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Law No. 13/2022/QH15 on Prevention and Combat Against Domestic Violence
URL:
https://thuviennhadat.vn/van-ban-phap-luat-viet-nam/law-13-2022-qh15-prevention-and-combat-against-domestic-violence-551941.html
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam Adopts Global LGBT Health Standard
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 August 2022
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/18/vietnam-adopts-global-lgbt-health-standard
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
Submission to the 144th Session of the Human Rights Committee. Viet Nam (Military service, conscientious objection and related issues).
Source:
Conscience and Peace Tax International
Date of Document:
May 2025
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=706aRUqfxzC1Fx0o1+bZFO1DpzTA9DpcgKkit2WkQUYU09djZaAWktTke6DMeHqO
Accessed Date:
12 June 2025
Title:
“We'll All Be Arrested Soon': Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam's “Infringing on State Interests' Law
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 April 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/04/21/well-all-be-arrested-soon/abusive-prosecutions-under-vietnams-infringing-state
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its ninety-sixth session, 27 March–5 April 2023: Opinion No. 22/2023 concerning Đặng Đình Bách (Viet Nam)
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
26 May 2023
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/WGAD/2023/22
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee During its Periodic Review of Vietnam under the ICCPR at its 144th Session
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
May 2025
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=RHzkXZ9eF58CRev7Vpl+e3vCbzG8DDfie0XscBXm9yl+7P2HVZLPGnSnIfTaVdC9
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Vietnam: Repeal Harmful Internet Laws
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 December 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/11/vietnam-repeal-harmful-internet-laws
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
New restrictions on freedom of expression in Vietnam
Date of Document:
22 January 2025
Author:
Michael Altman-Lupu; Ben Swanton
URL:
https://the88project.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/New-restrictions-on-freedom-of-expression-in-Vietnam-Project88.pdf
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
An analysis of Decree 147 on social media
Date of Document:
18 February 2025
Author:
Micheal Altman-Lupu; Ben Swanton
URL:
https://the88project.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Project88-Decree-147-analysis-FINAL.pdf
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
State-Controlled Religion and Religious Freedom in Vietnam
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
September 2024
URL:
https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20USCIRF%20State%20Controlled%20Religion%20in%20Vietnam.pdf
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Human Rights in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee by CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide).
Date of Document:
May 2025
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=LZc8mhFWp00+x8l8Zk0/aoAw2HO2ZXmstRZYbgac41kVXgoyq6kRIWErKMJ0XwpI
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Alternative Report to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) in addition to the Government of Vietnam's 4th periodic report: A Joint Submission
Source:
Boat People SOS; Montagnards Stand for Justice
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCCPR%2FICO%2FVNM%2F57058&Lang=en
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
Title:
Thailand: Montagnard Indigenous activist must not be extradited to face torture in Viet Nam
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
10 July 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/thailand-montagnard-indigenous-activist-must-not-be-extradited-to-face-torture-in-viet-nam/
Accessed Date:
13 June 2025
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