Viet Nam Human Rights
Achievements of human rights education in Vietnam
10/6/16
Human rights education is essential for the promotion of
respect for and observance of human rights. Through human rights education it
is possible to develop the skills and attitudes that promote equality, dignity
and respect in communities, society and worldwide. Human rights education and training enhances
knowledge, clarifies values, promotes solidarity, changes attitudes and
develops skills contributing to the respect for and enforcement of human
rights.
Among of
the significant achievements of Vietnam
after 30 years of renewals, those big achievements which are related to human
rights, are even recognized in the Constitution (amended in 2013) as well as
current legal document of Vietnam.
Human rights are always received the special attention of Communist Party and
Vietnamese Government and Vietnam has become a member of human rights committee
of United Nation. Human rights research and education in Vietnam have received
many remarkable achievements, for example, human rights major is now educated
in universities and there is even post – graduate education for this subject.
There are
many conferences, forums and projects for scientists to discuss about the
results on human rights research and education in Vietnam. They will provide
the suggestions for Vietnam to make policies and build law system in order to
improve the human rights education and protection, as well as information for
social organizations on human and others. As a result, it will improve the
academic ability of students, especially law students in universities.
In Vietnam, many educational institutions have developed new
curricula and training programmes on human rights, while the subject has been
made obligatory for law students. Human
rights education has become a topic of general interest in many major public
institutions in Vietnam, such as Vietnam National University’s Law Faculty
(VNULF) and its Center for Human and Citizen’s Rights (CRIGHTS), Hanoi
University’s Faculty of International Studies (FIS HANU), Hanoi Law University
(HLU), HCMC University of Law (HUL), the Ho Chi Minh Political Academy
(Institute for Human Rights (VIHR), the Institute for Family and Gender Studies
(IFGS),… In VNULF, Human Rights has been training as an independent/regular
human rights course and has recently published an academic cause-book on human
rights (3/9/2009) for use as the officially teaching document at VNU. There are
a great number of human rights-related courses regarding domestic laws, such
as: civil law, civil procedures, special procedures in civil trials, law on
implementing civil judgments, law on marriage… And, Human Rights topic is
taught as a regular/official course at the VNULF, at both BA and MA levels.
However, the
level of instruction, the contents and methods of approach are quite uneven. In
fact, since the last decade, human rights education has been taught and
integrated in the contents of different teaching subjects of the formal
secondary and primary levels of public schools in the country, and in the
training of different professional groups, such as public servants, law
enforcement officers, police, judiciary, military and government officials. At
the university level, several national institutions have begun to introduce
human rights into their formal educational curricula, though the knowledge they
generate is often not coordinated, publicized or widely available. A difficulty facing the studies of human rights is
limited English skills of Vietnamese students while most of reference documents
on the subject are in English.
Human
rights research and education in Vietnam have had a significant improvement in
all fields, for example: the breakthrough in policy advisory, many published
research works have created a network of research and education across the
country. Vietnamese and international researchers have shared about experiences
of countries, regions on human rights research and education. In the aspect of
challenges and opportunities, human rights is a long term issues which is closely
linked with the social growth and this could not be able to solved in a short
time. It depends on each certain growth period of humanity. Human rights issue
is a sensitive issue which is related to politics, culture, society, philosophy
and gender so on. We, however, cannot avoid it but we should put the human
rights in a specific circumstance so that we could figure out solutions. In the
future, we should improve the ability to do human rights research and education
in Vietnam.
We expect that Vietnam will receive further
support and collaboration of international organizations, nations and foreign
scientists so that Vietnam could build more programs on human rights research
and education in Vietnam in a diversified and crossed – industry pathway.
Also, they will do research on new issues and improve the ability of
researchers at not only university and post graduate but also at all levels of
education. The final purpose is to suggest Vietnamese government to build
up national policies and strategies on human rights education in Vietnam./.
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The Center‘s human rights functions include preparation of teaching curriculums on human rights for the university (graduate and post-graduate levels)and research on human and citizens' rights, and capacity-building on rights-related issues for scholars and lawyers.
Human Rights Education has become a topic of general interest in many major public institutions in Vietnam, but the level of instruction, the contents and methods of approach are quite uneven.
Since the last decade, human rights education has been taught and integrated in the contents of different teaching subjects of the formal secondary and primary levels of public schools in Vietnam.
However, Vietnam needs to find other ways to promote the education on human rights in the context of decreasing international financial support.
Yes, Vietnam's government always takes care of human rights issues.
It is widely hailed the significant achievements Vietnam has made in studies and education on human rights, as seen in the inclusion of the subject in the 2013 Constitution and in post-graduate training curricula.
Human rights education and training enhances knowledge, clarifies values, promotes solidarity, changes attitudes and develops skills contributing to the respect for and enforcement of human rights.
Human rights education plays an important role in promoting respect for and protecting human rights.
At the university level, several national institutions have begun to introduce human rights into their formal educational curricula, though the knowledge they generate is often not coordinated, publicized or widely available.
We expect that Vietnam will receive further support and collaboration of international organizations, nations and foreign scientists so that Vietnam could build more programs on human rights research and education.
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