Southeast Asia: Recognizing Ethnic Minority Customary Land Rights In Vietnam And The Philippines

Southeast Asia: Recognizing Ethnic Minority Customary Land Rights In Vietnam And The Philippines Luong Thi Truong and Orlando M. Genotiva, 2011   Key message: Vietnam needs new laws to protect land owned by ethnic minorities from development pressures and to recognize their customary rights and attachment to land they have lived on for generations.   Introduction   Most ethnic minorities in Vietnam such as the Vietnamese-Thai, Tay, Nung, Hmong, Muong and Dao have a special relationship...

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