Culture and Society

Happiness smiles with Duong Van Binh

16/07/2024

As a 2nd-generation victim of Agent Orange, who is living in Bach Quang ward, Song Cong city, Thai Nguyen province, Duong Van Binh has overcome his own limitations to rise up and become a shining example for other people to follow.

The silent "boatmen"

The over 7,660-km trip of Mr. Son "Justice"

Condolence Letter to Mr. Ngo Thanh Nhan and friends

Overcoming war legacies: The road to reconciliation and future cooperation ...

Chemical war in Vietnam (Part V)

Chemical war in Vietnam (Part IV)

Chemical warfare in Vietnam (Part III)

03/11/2023Culture and Society

Operation Ranch Hand. January 1, 1962. Purpose of defoliation

Chemical warfare in Vietnam (Part II) Pumping herbicides onto C-123 aircraft

03/11/2023Culture and Society

In 1961 During the 1950s, the US military conducted field tests to determine the feasibility of spraying tactical herbicides by aircraft. Spraying experiments and the operation of aerial spraying systems laid the foundation for the systems. In 1961, the Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Path of life – The fire never dies

23/06/2023Culture and Society

The following article is about a Vietnamese-French woman who has restlessly been proceeding against U.S. chemical companies that manufactured and supplied toxic chemicals of dioxin, including Agent Orange, for the U.S. Army to spray in South Vietnam during the war.

Silent sacrifices

15/06/2023Culture and Society

Although the war has receded, the pain and loss still follow many policy families, war invalids and martyrs. In fact, some wounds will eventually be healed, but the colorless, odorless, and tasteless ones can only be understood by those who are victims of Agent Orange. When the weather changes, ...

VIETNAM, A WAR WITHOUT END: AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM, DAMAGE AND QUESTIONS RAISED

18/04/2022Culture and Society

The text that follows presents an overview of problems posed by herbicides and defoliants, including Agent Orange. This product, containing dioxin, was the most widely used in Vietnam and today, more than 30 years after the end of the war, its effects can still be felt.

VIETNAM, A WAR WITHOUT END: VIETNAM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

19/06/2023Culture and Society

In 1940* the Second World War began and colonial Vietnam suffered from its effects twofold. On the one hand, the colonial regime recruited thousands of men and sent them to France, to incorporate them into the army or, above all, to set them to work in factories. After the defeat, many of these ...

Agent Orange sequelae, our pain and responsibilities

18/04/2022Culture and Society

These diseases and deformities cause persistent pain, unhappiness, and trauma both physically and mentally for many victims and their families over the course of two or three generations. Each victim has a different pain, and each victim family has a different circumstance, but they all suffer.

Dioxin and the pains remain

11/11/2022Culture and Society

The war has receded, but the sequelae left to Agent Orange victims persist for generations. According to research, Agent Orange/dioxin can cause negative effects on the human body, such as:

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Association of Japanese in love with Vietnam – 11 years accompanying victims of Agent Orange in ...

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VAVA signs agreement with the Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP)

Reviving A Luoi

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VAVA and Belgium Ambassador to Vietnam visited and worked with Binh Dinh Provincial Association

This is a series of activities to survey and grasp the actual situation of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange victims by Belgium Ambassador to Vietnam Mr. Karl Hendrik Margareta Van Den Bossche in Binh Dinh province, in order to build plan to realize the Resolution supporting Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange that the Belgian House of Representatives passed in October 2023.