Irinnews: Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia face discrimination

Liv Yang Bin at his home in Ech, about 50km south of Phnom Penh. The 58-year-old ethnic Vietnamese fisherman has long faced discrimination

When each of Liv’s five children was born in Cambodia, authorities told him that the babies would not receive Cambodian birth certificates because they were Vietnamese. Without a birth certificate, they could only unofficially attend some classes in school, but were not allowed to take the state exam at the end of grade nine, required for continuing their education at secondary school.

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