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Vietnam listed among countries with high Human Development Index for the first time

Human rights or human development is a central issue in the development process in Vietnam. 

 

Building a specialized monitoring agency to increase effectiveness in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities

It is necessary to have a specialized monitoring agency to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities. 

Achievements in ensuring human rights, the premise for Vietnam’s positions at international forums

The outstanding results in the international arena, with the most typical one is being elected as the Non-Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council, have confirmed the new stature of the Vietnamese State.

Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities: Comprehensive and multidimensional understanding is needed

Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities is not only limited to normal human rights values but also common values of a community as an equal ethnic group in a multi-ethnic country.

Despite difficulties, Vietnam constantly promotes the right to social security

The 2013 Constitution of the State of Vietnam recognizes citizens' rights to social security in Article 34. Accordingly, citizens are ensured in terms of social welfare.

Accepting economic losses, protecting people's lives at all costs

On the basis of the humanistic point of view of "not letting anyone behind", by specific actions, ensuring human rights, the campaign against Covid-19 pandemic of Vietnam is an outstanding success, becoming a bright spot in the world.

Ministry of Information and Communications strives to contribute to protecting children's rights in cyberspace

Building a child protection network in the cyberspace will connect agencies, organizations and businesses together, forming a harmonious process to prevent, detect, intervene and handle acts of child abuse in the Internet environment.

Ensuring the right to access information - an important factor for Vietnam to control Covid-19 epidemic

Vietnam has determined that the first principle in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic is openness, transparency, and no hiding of epidemics and considers this a measure to repel the epidemic.

Vietnam promotes and protects human rights in Covid-19 epidemic

The efforts of the Vietnamese Government during the Covid-19 epidemic is vivid evidence of the responsibility to protect and support vulnerable groups in the realization of human rights according to UPR recommendations.

Law on Support for and Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas should be issued

It is necessary to pass the promulgation and implementation of the "Law on Support for and Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas" 

Human rights considerations: Dialogue and cooperation are the only effective way

Vietnam does not support resolutions on human rights in a particular country but believes that dialogue and cooperation are an effective way to consider human rights issues, not criticize each other or pressuring, politicizing human rights.

Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW: A progressive resolution promoting the right to social security

Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW, issued on May 23, 2018 of the Party Central Committee, is considered to have the contents of reforming the social insurance policy progressively, 

Vietnam - a responsible member of international human rights conventions

Through international cooperation activities on human rights, Vietnam has played an increasingly important role and actively contributed to the building of common values of human rights in the region and the world.

Human Rights achievements: Impressive communications from direct to online mode

In addition to communication methods such as writing articles, activities of agencies and organizations, the propaganda of human rights is also implemented through the organization of photo exhibitions and advanced IT applications.

Impressive model of friendly bookcase at Ngoc Ly detention center

The fact has proven that converting and making changes in awareness is the best way of education. It will awaken the germ of goodness which is inherent and latent in each human being.

Law on Cyber Security contributes to better guarantee human rights

Discussing human rights in the time when fake news spread on social networks and the internet, Major General Le Tan Toi emphasized the urgency of human rights protection in cyberspace.

A special flight to guarantee citizens' right to life

The campaign to move Vietnamese citizens out of Hubei (China), the world’s corona virus epicenter in early February is a proof of the policy of putting people in the highest position,

Vietnam obtains important achievements in empowering girls

According to the 2020 Asia Girls Report released by Plan International, Vietnam is among the top three countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia in terms of girls' position in all aspects of life.

The role of journalists is indispensable for protection of human rights

The media plays the role of an essential means of communication in social life, the mouthpiece of the Party's agencies, the State, political and social organizations, the forum of the people.

Climate Change: Vietnam’s strong political commitment to protection of human rights

In the context of the speed of climate change, urbanization is increasing rapidly and complicatedly, human rights violations such as social inequality, discrimination against women and migrants, refugees, extreme poverty... still happen.