Vietnam on way to complete MDGs, better ensure basic human rights-Vnanet | Dec 10, 2015 Vietnam’s performance towards the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those regarding poverty reduction, gender equality and education, over the past years has won international recognition. The MDGs were defined by the United Nations as tools to better ensure the basic human rights in the fields of economics, culture, society, civil […]
Vietnam active in global human rights system-Vietnamplus | Dec 10, 2015 Vietnam is playing its increasingly active role in the global human rights system, Dennis Curry from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said at a seminar in Hanoi on December 10 in response to World Human Rights Day. Curry said Vietnam has ratified 7 out of 9 major international conventions […]
VIET NAM: DENIED MEDICAL TREATMENT UNLESS SHE ‘CONFESSES’: TRAN THI THUY-Amnesty International | Dec 11, 2015 Prisoner of conscience Tran Thi Thuy, currently serving an eight year sentence in Viet Nam, is being denied medical treatment for a tumour on her uterus in circumstances that could amount to torture. Although diagnosed by a prison doctor and despite being in severe pain, she has been told she will […]
Vietnam undertakes UNHRC membership soundly-Vietnamplus | Dec 11, 2015 Vietnam has been contributing to protecting and advancing the value of human rights in a direct, responsible and constructive manner during its membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council from 2014-2016. Vu Anh Quang, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organisations was speaking to the Vietnam News […]
Country achieves human rights progress since 1945-Vietnamnews | Dec 10, 2015 Viet Nam has made great progress in ensuring human rights since the Vietnamese Government was established 70 years ago, with the first and foremost establishments being gaining independence for the country and freedom for the Vietnamese people. “The country has spent almost 40 years at war over the last seven […]
Vietnam seriously enforces international human rights commitments-Vietnamnet | Dec 10, 2015 Vietnam steadfastly pursues the policy of ensuring full enforcement of basic rights and freedom for each citizen, Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc has written in an article on the occasion of World Human Rights Day (December 10). Under this policy, Vietnam has been expanding international human right cooperation and […]
Conference reviews Vietnam’s human rights achievements over 70 years-Vietnam Law | Dec 10, 2015 Vietnam has spent almost 40 years at war over the past seven decades, but is finally living in a state of peace and development, director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Ta Ngoc Tan toldVietnam News on the sidelines of a conference themed “70 Years of […]
CITIZEN-JOURNALIST NGUYEN VAN DAI BADLY BEATEN- RSF | Dec 10, 2015 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by the severe beating that citizen-journalist and cyber-activist Nguyen Van Dai received from plainclothes policemen in the northern province of Nghe An on 6 December, shortly after he participated in a discussion about human rights in Vietnam and the 2013 constitution. Around 60 […]
Strengthening legal and judicial reforms to ensure human rights and civil rights-dangcongsan | Dec 09, 2015 Progress in implementing the new Constitution and results from legal and judicial reforms and ensuring human and civil rights were at the core of the discussions at the Legal Partnership Forum on December 8th 2015 in Ha Noi. The forum was co-chaired by Mr. Ha Hung Cuong, Member of the Party […]
Vietnam’s 70-year human rights achievements highlighted-vietnamplus | Dec 09, 2015 Vietnam’s achievements in ensuring human rights over the past 70 years came under spotlight at a seminar held by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (NPA) in Hanoi on December 9. Speaking at the event, NPA Director Ta Ngoc Tan underlined that the Party and State of Vietnam […]
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