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'''Nguyễn Văn Hùng''' ([[5 mei]] [[1980]]) is een [[Vietnamezen|Vietnamees]] [[taekwondo|taekwondoka]].
'''Nguyen Van Hung''' ([[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]: '''Nguyễn Văn Hùng'''; [[Chinese language|Chinese]]: '''阮文雄'''; [[English language|English]]: '''Peter Nguyen''', born [[1958]]) is a [[Vietnamese Australian]] [[Catholicism|Catholic]] [[priest]] and [[human rights]] activist on [[Taiwan]] in [[Republic of China]], recognised by the [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States Department of State|Department of State]] as a "hero acting to end modern day slavery"<ref>[http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/67020.htm Heroes Acting To End Modern-Day Slavery]</ref><ref name="ET">[http://www.nownews.com/2005/08/15/122-1831326.htm 外籍神父博愛無私 為外勞及外籍新娘點燃希望之光]</ref><ref>[http://www.vietbao.com/?ppid=45&pid=5&nid=106134 Mời Dự Buổi Nói Chuyện Của Linh Mục Nguyễn Văn Hùng]</ref>.
Nguyễn won tijdens de [[Zuidoost-Aziatische Spelen]] drie maal de gouden medaille. Tijdens de [[Taekwondo op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2008|Olympische Zomerspelen]] in [[Peking]] vertegenwoordigde hij [[Vietnam op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2008|Vietnam]], waar hij in de 1/8e finale verloor in de klasse boven 80 kg.
Nguyen Van Hung grew up in a lower-middle class family outside of [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]] in [[South Vietnam|Republic of Vietnam]], with five sisters and two brothers; his father was a [[fisherman]], but died after a long battle with illness, forcing his mother, a devout Catholic with roots in the country's northern half, to become the family's main breadwinner. Nguyen Van Hung himself absorbed his mother's faith and devotion to helping the less fortunate from an early age; he was an admirer of [[Francis of Assisi]], and often stole food from his own family to feed to the poor. He left [[Vietnam]] in [[1979]] [[boat people|on an overcrowded boat]]; rescued by a [[Norway|Norwegian]]-flagged ship after just 36 hours and taken to [[Japan]], he joined the [[Missionary Society of St. Columban]] upon his arrival<ref name="Brownlow">[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2006/10/01/2003330029 Where there's darkness …]</ref>. He lived in Japan for three years, studying and taking a variety of jobs to support himself, including as a highway repairman, steel factory worker, and gravedigger<ref name="LAF">[http://www.laf.org.tw/tw/public/index_detial.php?H_ID=7 照亮越南勞工的心靈燈塔－阮文雄神父]</ref>. He first came to Taiwan in [[1988]] as a missionary, after which he went to [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] to study at a [[seminary]] there. He was [[ordination|ordained]] in [[1991]]<ref name="ET"/><ref name="Brownlow"/>. The following year, he came to Taiwan again<ref name="LAF"/>.
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Nguyen Van Hung established the [[Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office]] in [[Taoyuan County, Taiwan|Taoyuan County]] in [[2003]] to offer assistance to [[Vietnamese people in Taiwan|Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan]]. [[Vietnamese American]] radio station [[Little Saigon Radio]] and others helped him to rent the second floor of a grammar school; two seventy square foot rooms offer sleeping space, while two others are used for office space<ref>[http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e71dd248a07f9623345db1a848943abb Vietnamese Trafficking Victims Suffer Abuses in Taiwan]</ref>. They provide [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] classes, room and board, and legal assistance. His exposure of abuses against foreign labourers and brides led the U.S. State Department to list Taiwan as a "Tier 2" region alongside countries such as [[Cambodia]] due to their lack of effort in combating [[human trafficking]], which proved a major international embarrassment for the island's government. His work has also made him the target of intimidation in Taiwan, as a result of which he no longer goes out at night<ref name="Brownlow"/>. Though he feels has personally received a friendly reception by people on Taiwan, he harshly criticises the classism of the society which leads people to treat manual labourers and domestic workers like "servants" and justify a variety of abuses of them.
[[Categorie:Vietnamees olympisch deelnemer]]
[[Categorie:Vietnamees taekwondoka]]
[[en:Nguyen Van Hung (martial artist)]]
Outside of his work, Nguyen Van Hung enjoys playing the [[guitar]] and painting [[Chinese painting]]s. His mother lives in Sydney<ref name="Brownlow"/>.
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.taiwanact.net/ TAIWAN ACT! Taiwan Alliance to Combat Trafficking - www.taiwanact.net]
*[http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Peter_VanHung_whitworth_07 The My Hero Project - Reverend Peter Nguyen Van Hung]
[[Category:Vietnamese people]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic priests]]
[[Category:Human rights activists]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1958 births]]
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[[zh-yue:阮文雄]]
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