Viet Nam Human Rights
Media updated with information on human rights in Vietnam
29/9/16
The
Foreign Ministry, in collaboration with other ministries, held a meeting in
Hanoi on September 28 to provide the media with information about human rights
in the country.
Hoang
Thi Thanh Nga, Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry’s International
Organisations Department, said Vietnam was elected to the UN Human Rights
Council for the 2014-2016 term with the highest vote among candidates (184 out
of 192). The country takes its role seriously and has actively contributed to
the HRC’s work though its speeches at hundreds of meetings and participation in
designing and negotiating the Council’s resolutions and decisions, thereby
helping to ensure the common values of human rights.
It
has seriously implemented universal periodic reviews and engaged in
straightforward dialogues with other countries. Vietnam, together with
Bangladesh and the Philippines, co-sponsored a resolution on climate change
impacts on the rights of the child.
Vietnam
has worked to promote dialogues and cooperation among countries, and to improve
the effectiveness, transparency and equality in the Council’s activities, while
raising its voice to refute wrong information about human rights in the
country, she said.
Regarding
the protection of children’s rights, an official of the Ministry of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) noted that Vietnam has more than 26
million children, of whom over 1.5 million are less privileged children while
over 2 million others may fall into disadvantaged backgrounds.
To
support those children, Vietnam has overhauled legal regulations on child
protection and set up 31 provincial social work centres nationwide, along with
158 district-level advisory offices and thousands of community- and
school-based consultation centres.
Nguyen
Thi Nga, Deputy Director of the MoLISA’s Child Care and Protection Department,
her ministry has carried out a programme to develop the social support system
which aims to assist 90 percent of the children from special backgrounds. The
programme also looks to curb the increase in children abuse and support all
abuse-prone children.
To
this goal, many schools nationwide have taught soft skills to their students
while State agencies and social organisations have facilitated underprivileged
children’s access to social help, health care and education, she added.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Hoang Vinh Bao said agencies should be proactive in providing information to the media in order to enhance the media’s role in reflecting the true situation of human rights in the country.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Hoang Vinh Bao said agencies should be proactive in providing information to the media in order to enhance the media’s role in reflecting the true situation of human rights in the country.
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The publication of information on human right issues has been lacking due to loose cooperation between agencies, a passive response to distorted information and limited resources to report on these issues.
It should have training courses for journalists and creating more connections between the media and authorized agencies to ensure information on human rights issues is kept up to date.
News agencies could report human rights issues as well as religious issues, children’s rights, the Law on Press and the Law on Access to Information.
The provision of timely and accurate information about both violations and the protection of human rights in the country via the media should help boost people’s awareness and promote their participation in this area
Authorities at all levels must create favorable conditions for people exercise their human rights and report any violations to the media.
The country has signed and ratified seven out of the nine core UN human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, of which the country was the first nation in Asia and second in the world to sign, together with the two latest conventions on the rights of persons with disabilities and the prohibition of torture
Vietnam is now a member of the Human Rights Council and has been contributing to protecting and advancing the value of human rights
Việt Nam has made continuous progress in the promotion of human rights as well as in efforts to realise international commitments on the issue over the past decades.
Vietnam should hold more workshops to provide journalists with a panoramic understanding of human rights and international conventions on human rights in relation to media and communications.
This is a good method to share international experiences on media, communications and human rights and human rights reporting.
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