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Thirty tribes of indigenous peoples, also known as Montagnards or Degar, live in Northern and Central Highlands of Vietnam. One of them is a minority group called Hmong that faced many and various changes concerning the issue of religion. As a matter of fact, during the last twenty years, these groups have encountered particular problems dealing with their right of freedom of religion. Thousands of them have joined political protests against the confiscation of their lands from the state authorities and against the religion controls of the government across the territory. In these circumstances, representatives of the minority groups have affirmed that with the contestations they were fighting for their fundamental human rights. By the way, the government continues in many cases to create abuse of its powers, because lots of situations reported extreme persecution from local authorities.This personal report aims at presenting the contemporary situation of the state around the topic of a new law on religions and beliefs that should be approved in 2016.

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Elisa Fattore was born in Padoua in 1988. After graduating from high school, she decided to attend the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Ca´ Foscari University of Venice. In 2016 she continued her studies with a master degree in International Relations. She carried out a research thesis in Vietnam on human rights.

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