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Khmer-Krom: Detained for wearing UN T-Shirt!
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) decries the detention in Vietnam of a Khmer-Krom activist who was wearing a T-shirt with the logo of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the confiscation of 150 coopies of UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (DRIP).
This marks the second time in recent months where we have learnt of activits in Vietnam being targeted for possessing and disseminating UN human rights and sustainable development materials. Whlie the activist was eventually released, Vietnamese authorities are clearly exhibiting a lack of respect for the basic international standards that they have submitted to.
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Aboriginal advocates demand name rights
By Chien Hui-ju / Staff reporter
Aboriginal rights advocates yesterday protested in Taipei, demanding that their names be written in the Roman alphabet on identification cards and official papers, and that Chinese versions of their name be dropped.
At the protest in front of the Ministry of the Interior, demonstrators urged the government to amend regulations that require a Chinese name and an Aboriginal name in the Roman alphabet on identification cards and official documents.
A restaurant chain recently had a big promotion for people whose names contained “salmon” (鮭魚), “but when we want to use only Aboriginal names with our own script system, we cannot do so, because the law does not permit it,” said Savungaz Valincinan, a Bunun graduate student at National Dong Hwa University.