Viet Nam Human Rights
Vietnam’s efforts in ensuring equality spotlighted at IPU session
5/4/17
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National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi
Phong has highlighted Vietnam’s achievements in tackling inequality and
ensuring fairness for all at the plenary session of the 136th
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 3.
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As a developing country that is overcoming historical
difficulties, Vietnam is aware of the need for socio-economic development
along with ensuring equality and fairness for all people, she stated.
Vietnam has reached the majority of the UN Millennium Development
Goals with three targets completed ahead of schedule: poverty reduction,
primary school universalisation and gender equality promotion and women’s
empowerment.
The country has also built a national action plan to implement
17 global sustainable development goals as well as 169 specific goals stated
in the 2030 Agenda with detailed measures to realise goal 10 on ensuring
equal opportunities and reducing inequality.
The NA Vice Chairwoman also noted that the NA built the 2013
Constitution, while completing a legal system with various laws, including
the Labour Code, Laws on Health Insurance, Gender Equality, Trade Union,
Information Access, Youth, Persons with Disabilities, Children Care and
Protection, the Elderly and Beliefs and Religions.
Additionally, the country has issued policies on
socio-economic development while improving the living conditions of ethnic
minority groups, she added.
However, she said that Vietnam also faces many difficulties
such as climate change, limited resources for social areas and unequal
development among regions.
She called for continued support from countries and
international organisations in management and governance to fulfill all
development goals.
At the session, themed “Redressing inequalities: Delivering on
dignity and well-being for all”, NA Vice Chairwoman Phong proposed eight
recommendations, including the strengthening of the UN in the field, speeding
up the implementation of targets in the sustainable development goal 10 in
each country and reforming the operation and agenda of multilateral economic,
trade and financial organisations to make sure developing countries can raise
their voice at global economic-financial institutions.
It is necessary to develop a network connecting regional
organisations to respond to non-traditional security matters such as natural
disaster, climate change, sea level rise and pandemics, she stated.
She asked countries to continue completing their institutions
and enhance the effectiveness of policy making and national governance to
reduce inequality and erase regulations with discrimination.
She also called on developed countries to continue supporting
developing ones through sharing experience and technology, while encouraging
countries to build tools to evaluate inequality.
Parliaments should promote their legislative and supervision
role over the governments and support governments in tackling inequality, she
proposed, asking the IPU to continue strengthening cooperation mechanisms
with members in sharing experience
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Equity comes from the idea of moral equality, that people should be treated as equals.
Thinking about
equity can help us decide how to distribute goods and services across society, holding the state
responsible for its influence over how goods and services are distributed in a society, and using this
influence to ensure fair treatment for all citizens.
There should be no differences in outcomes based on factors for which
people cannot be held responsible.
Unfortunately, there is considerable inequity in developing countries.
People’s access to and interaction with key institutions are shaped by power balances in the political, economic and social spheres, often leading to adverse incorporation and social exclusion.
There are a number of challenges and obstacles to implementing pro-equity policies, many of which themselves stem from inequities.
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This must be down to a lack of political will. We can only conclude that the limited focus on equity is a matter of domestic and international power imbalances.
Tackling inequities often requires working against the interests of national elites, challenging vested interests or dominant ideologies, or speaking for people who are excluded and ignored systematically by those making policy.
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