Viet Nam Human Rights
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The nation has adopted policies to ensure the rights of the disabled and enable them to access all the services that are available for them. Many apartments, offices and public facilities accessible to the disabled have been built.
Social organizations and private companies have been providing vocational training to and recruiting people with disabilities. A vocational training center was set up in Son La province in April to teach the disabled wood carving.
In addition to free training, students also receive free meals and an allowance of USD120 a month.
Tran Thanh Son, Director of the Tuyet Son Company, owns the center. He said, “I set up this center to generate jobs for the disabled and enable them to stabilize their lives. I want to transfer my techniques and skills to the disabled to help them earn more income”.
Tran Thanh Son, Director of the Tuyet Son Company, owns the center. He said, “I set up this center to generate jobs for the disabled and enable them to stabilize their lives. I want to transfer my techniques and skills to the disabled to help them earn more income”.
Lo Van Moi of Na Bo commune, Mai Son district, a student at the center, noted, “The work here is suitable for people with disabilities like us. I will be able to support my family”.
In Thua Thien-Hue province, the Center for Community Development has put in place a project to promote the exercise of the rights of people with disabilities.
With funding of more than VND5 billion, the project aims to empower advocacy for the disabled and provide them with legal assistance, information, and transportation.
Under the project, about 800 disabled people in Thua Thien-Hue province will be trained in life skills and learn about their rights and services. About 4,000 disabled people and their family members will receive legal assistance.
Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Director of the Center, shared, “Disabled people will learn how to access public facilities and public transportation designed for them and discuss with local authorities their problems and ways to solve them”.
The implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and assistance from relevant agencies and community are improving the lives of the disabled and ensuring their rights./.
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People with disabilities have the same rights as all other people. However, for a number of reasons they often face social, legal, and practical barriers in claiming their human rights on an equal basis with others.
Human rights are based on human needs. They assert that every person is equally entitled not only to life, but to a life of dignity. Human rights also recognize that certain basic conditions and resources are necessary to live a dignified life.
Recognizing that disability is an evolving concept and that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
all persons are equal before and under the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law.
discrimination on the basis of disability and guarantee to persons with disabilities equal and effective legal protection against discrimination on all grounds.
In order to promote equality and eliminate discrimination, States Parties shall take all appropriate steps to ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided.
States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
States Parties undertake to adopt immediate, effective and appropriate measures to raise awareness throughout society, including at the family level, regarding persons with disabilities, and to foster respect for the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
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