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Hunger eradication and poverty reduction to ensure sustainable human rights implementation

The Prime Minister has signed Decision No. 1722/QD-TTg approving the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction for the 2016 – 2020 period, which has added motivation for poverty reduction in Vietnam.

 

Vietnam actively contributes to drafting resolutions and co-sponsoring many initiatives

Recently, at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland), the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN) conducted its final discussions, passing 37 Resolutions and the Presidential Statement at the 42nd session.

 

Vietnam actively integrates with the world in ensuring human rights

Vietnam has achieved many successes in socio-economic development, contributing to maintaining regional and international peace and stability, and creating an important basis and prerequisite to ensure and enforce human rights.

 

Promote the role of all parties in collective labor agreements

Negotiating and signing collective labor agreements (CLAs) by professional category is among the trends to perform the duties of representing and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of trade union members and workers.

 

Food and clothes - the basis for ensuring human rights in ethnic minority and mountainous areas

In the 2012-2015 period, the State will allocate free seeds and fertilizers to help poor households and ethnic minority households develop food production and thus solving food shortages.

 

Human rights are the essence of our regime

During more than 30 years of renovation, although the country have faced many difficulties, the social security policy has always received special attention.


 

 

Promulgating laws to concretize Vietnam's consistent guidelines on freedom of belief and religion

The promulgation of the Law on Beliefs and Religions affirms that Vietnam actively participates in international integration, completes its law on beliefs and religions to concretize its consistent guidelines on freedom of belief and religion.

 

VESAK 2019: Vivid evidence for freedom of belief and religion in Vietnam

The UN Day of Vesak 2019 with the theme "Buddhist approach to global leadership and shared responsibility for sustainable society" held on May 12-14, 2019 at Tam Chuc Pagoda, Ha Nam Province, took place successful.

 

2019: Exciting activities for human rights

2019 is an exciting year with many important activities at global and regional forums on human rights.

 

UNHRC adopts Resolution on Human Rights, co-authored by Vietnam

The Vietnamese delegation actively contributed to discussions at the UNHRC session and negotiation sessions on draft resolutions.

 

Proactively sharing information about human rights and civil rights

Awareness of human rights is still limited among a group of people in Vietnam. Therefore, the provision of accurate information is extremely important.

 

Promoting gender equality, empowering women and girls

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy shared Vietnam's experience in strengthening the important role and participation of Vietnamese women in stages of peaceful processes, especially in the post-conflict reconstruction process. 

 

Laws are important means to protect human rights

Human rights are one of the issues that are the concern and the subject for study of the human. In Vietnam, the cause of protecting human rights has become the unified will of the entire Party and people.

 

Actively take measures to protect Vietnamese citizens abroad

Over the past years, citizen protection work has always been carried out under the motto "Active, timely, quick and effective protection".

 

Safety for women and children towards sustainable development goals

Safety for women and children is also an important part of the sustainable development goals that Vietnam is committed to.

 

Human rights in remote areas

Ha Giang province is home to 22 ethnic minorities. Due to the rugged terrain and harsh climate, local people's lives are still extremely difficult.

Strengthen legal corridor to ensure implementation of human rights

Vietnam has comprehensively "internalized" international conventions on human rights.

 

Vietnam's legal system on human rights getting better

In just over 10 years, many important laws directly related to civil and political rights have been enacted and continuously reviewed for amendment and supplementation for better recognition of these rights.

 

Important basis for promoting human rights in Vietnam

The policy on human right education of the Party and the State of Vietnam has been widely implemented in schools and at political and social organizations as well as on the mass media.