Vietnam Reporting Project

22/03/2021

We urge you to read this powerful article recently published in the New York Times about the enduring, yet mostly ignored, legacy of Agent Orange on generations of ethnic minorities in Laos. Kudos to Susan Hammond and the War Legacies Project (a key partner in Renaissance Journalism's Vietnam Reporting Project) for their courageous and tireless work exposing and documenting the long-term effects of Agent Orange in Laos, and providing humanitarian aid to its victims.

America has never taken responsibility for spraying the herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War. But generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences.

28/09/2019

Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts

Sonya Schoenberger writes about the enduring legacy and devastating impact of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam. Her reporting in Vietnam was supported by a grant from the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale.

Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty.

16/05/2019

Pulitzer Award-Winning Photographer Nick Ut Retires After 51 Years

Wishing great things for Nick Ut, who is retiring after an amazing career. He was a huge participant in Renaissance Journalism's Vietnam Reporting Project and worked with fellow Pulitzer winner Connie Schultz

By Catherine Bauknight March 29, 2017 will historically mark the date that Nick Ut retired as a photojournalist from the Associated Press (AP). Aft...

24/09/2017

Vietnam Reporting Project - News coverage of the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam

The PBS documentary "The Vietnam War," an 18-hour series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, says there is "no single truth in war." One truth that gets little attention in the United States is the terrible and lasting tragedy experienced by the Vietnamese because of the U.S. military's extensive use of Agent Orange during the war. Millions of Vietnamese today suffer from severe illnesses and genetic damage traced to Agent Orange. Renaissance Journalism and a team of top reporters, photographers and multimedia producers from across the U.S. explored these problems in our Vietnam Reporting Project.

22/09/2017

Opinion | The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange

"The reason for official American reluctance is not lack of scientific evidence. The problem is the distance between American policy makers and the Vietnamese people. Vietnamese victims are too far removed from the American public, and too reminiscent of an unpopular war. Agent Orange victims are also among the most visually disturbing consequences of the Vietnam War," writes Viet Thanh Nguyen and Richard Hughes in this recent NY Times opinion piece.

The United States has acknowledged the horrifying effects of Agent Orange on its military veterans. Why won’t it do the same for Vietnamese citizens?

14/09/2016

Facebook backs down, will no longer censor the iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ war photo

Because we should never forget.

"I think you are abusing your power," the editor of Norway's largest newspaper wrote in an open letter to Zuckerberg.

08/09/2016

55 Years After Agent Orange Was Used In Vietnam, One Of Its Creators Is Thriving Here

55 Years After Agent Orange Was Used In Vietnam, One Of Its Creators Is Thriving Here

Monsanto is expanding in a country it once helped destroy.

26/12/2015

Children of Vietnam

The holidays are here and our VN Team is working hard to ensure children stay in school with desks, tutoring, bicycles and school scholarships thanks to everyone supporting the our Educational Initiative. These are photos of the children supported through our Dragoon Scholarship Fund from this week! Happy Holidays around the World!

16/11/2015

Interview a Vietnam Veteran With ProPublica and StoryCorps

ProPublica has teamed up with StoryCorps to gather oral histories from Vietnam War veterans and their families about the generational impact of Agent Orange exposure. Tell your story by downloading the StoryCorps smartphone app.

ProPublica has gathered more than 3,400 stories about Agent Orange from Vietnam vets and their loved ones. Now, we're inviting veterans to record those stories with StoryCorps.

24/10/2015

Lasers may ease pain for 'na**lm girl' in AP photograph

More than 40 years after being badly burned by na**lm during the Vietnam War, Kim P**c will finally have a chance to heal old scars---and relieve excruciating pain that plagues her every day---as she receives laser treatments donated by a Miami dermatologist. By her side, the photographer Nick Ut, who took the iconic photo of Kim P**c that came to define the horrors of war. "He's the beginning and the end," P**c says of the man she calls "Uncle Ut." ''He took my picture and now he'll be here with me with this new journey, new chapter."

MIAMI (AP) — In the photograph that made Kim P**c a living symbol of the Vietnam War, her burns aren't visible — only her agony as she runs wailing toward the camera, her arms flung away from her body, naked because…

10/08/2015

VetChat E09

Today marks the 54th anniversary of the date of the first spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam by the US Military. Take Time invites you to hear directly from some of the people that have been affected by Agent Orange.

How has Agent Orange affected you and your family?

09/04/2015

An American Daughter Returns to Vietnam

A powerful and beautifully written piece about healing the wounds of war by Oanh Ha, a former VRP fellow. In this essay, Oanh Ha recounts her family's 1979 harrowing boat escape from Vietnam, as well as her own return, in 2010, to her family's beloved homeland. She is currently the Vietnam bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

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27/02/2015

Photo Gallery: Vietnam -- National Geographic Traveler

Check out former VRP Fellow Catherine Karnow's stunning Web gallery of Vietnam in National Geographic Traveler magazine online and in the print issue this month. The gallery represents 25 years of her shooting in Vietnam. Congrats, Catherine!

See photos of Vietnam, 40 years after the war.

30/05/2014

Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

Speeches by Susan V. Berresford and Charles Bailey pay tribute to the progress in Agent Orange work in Vietnam.

What is Agent Orange?

14/05/2014

Agent Orange’s Long Legacy, for Vietnam and Veterans

Retro Report video documentary (published in The New York Times) examines the enduring legacy of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese and American veterans.

More than 40 years after the American military used Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, the chemical still casts a long shadow over the Vietnamese and the American veterans who fought there.

09/04/2014

Foreword: Vietnam 40 Years Later - New America Media

Photographer Robert Dodge offers "Vietnam 40 Years Later," and New America Media essayist Andrew Lam finds much to enjoy.

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20/02/2014

Agent Orange Awareness Campaign

Catherine Karnow has launched the Agent Orange Awareness Campaign and plans to do follow-up work on the groundbreaking photo coverage she did for our Vietnam Reporting Project

The goal of this Awareness campaign is to unlock US government support for Agent Orange clean up and equitable compensation for Agent Orange victims and their families and communities.

30/12/2013

Slowly but surely, progress continues on Agent Orange project at the Danang airport.

http://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1861/project_report_14-danang_airport_remediation_Nov2013.pdf

16/09/2013

Vietnamese Americans, Exposed to Agent Orange, Suffer in Silence - New America Media

New America Media's Ngoc Nguyen reports on the silent suffering of many Vietnamese Americans---former soldiers in the South Vietnamese Army---who were exposed to Agent Orange during the war. She also delves into the politically sensitive nature of the Agent Orange issue in California's Vietnamese American community.

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05/09/2013

Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era

The enduring power of war photographs is examined and celebrated in a new book and in exhibitions of images captured by Associated Press photographers during the Vietnam War. As described in this story in the New York Times, one of the most memorable ones was taken by Nick Ut, who snapped the shocking image of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl burned in a na**lm attack.

A retrospective book and exhibitions highlight war photographs that turned the tide of public opinion.

20/08/2013

PhilanTopic: 5 Questions for...Charles Bailey, Director, Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

Charles Bailey describes significant progress in addressing Agent Orange problems in Vietnam, and he gives a nice shout-out to the Vietnam Reporting Project!

From 1997 to 2007, Charles Bailey was the Ford Foundation representative in Vietnam. At the start of his posting, the war in Vietnam had been over for more than twenty years, but one of its legacies, environmental contamination caused by...

07/08/2013

Listen « National Radio Project

Learn more about the enduring legacy of Agent Orange on August 7, when National Radio Project's "Making Contact" airs reporter Oanh Ha's stories about the toxic defoliant. Her reports were first aired on KQED Radio and were produced as part of the Renaissance Journalism Center's Vietnam Reporting Project. Visit NRP's website, where you can hear the show or find a local station that airs it.

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25/07/2013

The Ongoing U.S.-Vietnam Reconciliation Process: A Personal View

Former Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Thuy Vu reflects on a luncheon she attended this week in D.C. in honor of Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang. She touches upon the enduring legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam, as well as the challenges of reconciliation and her own struggles as a Vietnamese American journalist.

By Thuy Vu KQED News is launching a new multiplatform service in October called KQED Newsroom on television, radio and online, with three–time Emmy Awa

25/07/2013

4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese | McClatchy

Here's a recent in-depth story on the enduring legacy of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam, 40 years after the war ended, by Drew Brown of McClatchy. He leads with the story of Nguyen Thi Ly, now 12 years old. She was 9 when Vietnam Reporting Project fellows Ed Kashi and Catherine Karnow filmed and photographed her story for our project.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force sprayed more than 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides over parts of southern Vietnam and along the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. The herbicides were contaminated with dioxin, a deadly compound that remains toxic for decades a...

23/07/2013

Obama: Include Disability In Strategic Partnership Talks With Vietnam's President

Charles Bailey previews the upcoming meeting between President Obama and Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang.

The effects of dioxin, a contaminant in Agent Orange, remain a controversial subject. But discussion of the Agent Orange legacy has matured in recent years from a topic of polarized views toward active bilateral cooperation; from poor understanding to clarity and specificity; from guilt to a shared…

19/06/2013

Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily | A prayer for peace, a history of war

Writer Elaine Elinson travels to Vietnam with a group of veterans seeking to heal the legacies of war.

19/06/2013

Environment Remediation of Dioxin Contamination at Danang Airport Progress June 5, 2013

Finally, after all these years, progress is being made in cleaning up the Agent Orange hotspot at the Danang Airport.

Danang, Vietnam, June 5, 2013 Photos: Richard Nyberg, USAID

28/01/2013

Stanley Karnow, Historian and Journalist, Dies at 87

Our deepest sympathies to former Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Catherine Karnow on the recent passing of her father, Stanley Karnow. We mourn the death of this great man, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist renowned for his seminal books and documentaries on the Vietnam War and the Philippines. Our thoughts and prayers are with Catherine and the Karnow family.

Mr. Karnow’s books “Vietnam: A History” (1983) and “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines” (1989) were adapted into successful PBS documentary mini-series.

02/11/2012

Invisible Solitudes - Life at the Edge of Mental Health

We're so proud of Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Catherine Karnow, who exhibited her Agent Orange photos in a Milan, Italy exhibit, "Invisible Solitudes—Life at the Edge of Mental Health."

Milan: October 2012. Catherine Karnow in front of her photos of Agent Orange victims in Vietnam

28/09/2012

SocialDocumentary.net | Catherine Karnow | Agent Orange: A Terrible Legacy | Viet Nam

Catherine Karnow's photos for the Vietnam Reporting Project will be on display in Milan, Italy, October 7-27, as part of an international exhibition on mental health. But, if you can't make it to Italy, you can see some of her stunning photos capturing the terrible legacy of Agent Orange at this link.

This is the story of the lives of two families who struggle with diseases associated with Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War, the U.S military sprayed some 12 million gallons of the Agent Orange defoliant over Vietnam. Now, almost four decades later, the toxic herbicide continues to have a

12/09/2012

Congrats to Vietnam Reporting Project's Catherine Karnow, whose Agent Orange exhibit has been selected as one of six Socialdocumentary.net photographers for exhibition in Milan, Italy, to coincide with World Mental Health Day

24/08/2012

Agent Orange

60 Minutes segment on Agent Orange with correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

Almost 4 decades after the Vietnam war ended the U.S. government has finally agreed to help clean up the highly toxic dioxin residue left behind at its forme...

20/08/2012

Cleaning Agent Orange - Video Library - The New York Times

Check out this multimedia piece in The New York Times about the Agent Orange clean-up effort now underway in Vietnam. By Thomas Fuller and Poypiti Amatatham.

Over a decade of war in Vietnam, the United States sprayed about 20 million gallons of Agent Orange, a defoliant linked to cancers, birth defects and other diseases.

13/08/2012

50 Years After 'Nam, Why Is The US Back? - HuffPost Live

Live discussion about Agent Orange on HuffPost Live this afternoon at 3:10 pm (EST); 12:10pm on West coast. Go to the link below to watch. Also on the program are Tran Thi Hoan from HCM City and Kelly Derricks, the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, who will talk about how Agent Orange has affected their lives.

Fifty years after American planes first sprayed Agent Orange over Vietnam, the U.S. is now helping clean up the mess. Is it an act of penance or power politics?

13/08/2012

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