page_title: International Vietnamese Youth Conference
section_title: Sydney in 2005
hierarchical_section_title: International Vietnamese Youth Conference / History / Sydney in 2005
caption_attribution_description: Democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan speaking at a Fourth International Vietnamese Youth Conference in Sydney in December 2005
context_page_description: An International Vietnamese Youth Conference is organized every two or three years by the Len Duong International Vietnamese Youth Network, drawing Vietnamese youths from around the world to gather and discuss topics relating to Vietnamese youths and to network with each other. These conferences are attended by between 200 and 600 young people from more than 15 countries. The Vietnamese spelling of the conference is "Đại Hội Thanh Niên Sinh Viên Việt Nam Thế Giới," and is therefore also abbreviated and nicknamed "DH", followed by the conference number, such as "DH1" for the first conference, "DH2" for the second, and so on.
context_section_description: With DH4, the fourth conference returned to its original country Australia and was co-hosted by the Federal Vietnamese Students Association of Australia.
  About 450 youths gathered for five days at the Bankstown Town Hall in the suburbs of Sydney from December 27, 2005 to January 1, 2006. This conference marked the first conference without a camp, although it included a one-day Amazing Race style activity around Sydney as a break from conference workshops.
  The theme of this conference was Vietnamese Youths: Eliminating Barriers, Overcoming Challenges  (Tuổi Trẻ Việt Nam: Xoá Ngăn Cách - Vượt Thử Thách in Vietnamese 
  ). In this spirit, it included some unusually reconciliatory activities, such as a debate, in the form of a fictional legal trial, concerning what punishment should be given to a communist official who accidentally killed a protester supporting the old South Vietnamese regime. Topics also included:
  Lives and hopes of today’s youths
  Teamwork in the community
  Vietnamese History - 100 years since the Đong Du Movement
  Vietnamese History - Philosophies of Phan Bội Châu vs. Phan Chu Trinh
  The Education System and work force, from Vietnam to the West
  What is Human Right? Is there or is there not Human Rights in Vietnam?
  Social activities in Vietnam - Problems and Solutions
  Vietnam - Why must we be concerned?
  Speakers included Vietnamese pre-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan.
caption: Nguyen Quoc Quan speaks at Vietnamese conference
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