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Human Rights Council’s UPR Working Group adopts report on Vietnam
Human Rights Council’s UPR Working Group adopts report on Vietnam
29/1/19
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group of the UN Human Rights Council adopted a preliminary report on the third review of Vietnam at a session at the UN headquarters in Geneva on January 25.
The report included 291 recommendations made by 122 countries, covering a wide range of scopes such as building a law-governed State, completing the legal system, continuing to promote basic rights and freedom, and enhancing cooperation with human rights mechanisms of the UN.
Countries also called on Vietnam to share its experiences in ensuring the rights of disadvantaged groups, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty, universalizing education, ensuring social welfare and creating employment.
Most recommendations are in accordance with Vietnam’s priorities and commitments in protecting and promoting human rights.
Addressing the session, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung appreciated the cooperative and constructive spirit of countries and their positive assessment on Vietnam’s national construction and human rights protection and promotion.
Trung affirmed that Vietnam will carefully study the recommendations in order to decide on the acceptance or acknowledgement of received recommendations, in line with the HRC’s regulations, procedures and practices, so as to ensure the full and effective implementation of those recommendations in the future.
The report on the third UPR of Vietnam will be considered for official approval at the 41st regular session of the HCR scheduled for June this year.
The 32nd meeting of the UN Human Rights Council’s UPR Working Group is taking place from January 21 to February 1, looking into human right performance at 14 UN member countries, including Vietnam. The Vietnamese delegation to the session was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung./.
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The UPR is a unique process which involves a periodic review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States. Since its first meeting was held in April 2008, all 193 UN member States have been reviewed twice within the first and second UPR cycles.
There are positive impacts across all aspects of society in Vietnam, especially in building human rights-related laws, ensuring social welfare, improving people’s living standards, and promoting cooperation and dialogues on human rights at regional and international levels.
Since the 2014 UPR, Vietnam’s development achievements have been acknowledged by the international community, including its ahead-of-schedule completion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the initial results of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Vietnam is one of the countries worldwide witnessing the fastest internet development pace, with more than 50 million internet users.
The UPR is an inter-governmental mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council, aimed at reviewing issues related to the human rights of all UN member countries. Vietnam first implemented the UPR in May 2009.
With the policy of taking people as the goal and momentum for the country’s inclusive reform and development, since the previous review in 2014, Viet Nam has gained remarkable accomplishments in promoting and protecting human rights in building a law-ruled State, fine-tuning the legal system on human rights, building a facilitating government, promoting socio-economic development, improving the efficiency of judicial agencies, promoting the role of socio-political organisations and the press, and increasing international integration.
Many developing countries appreciated Viet Nam’s endeavours in reducing poverty and narrowing development gaps among regions as well as ensuring access to healthcare and education, particularly for people inhabiting remote and ethnic minority areas.
Vietnam views the UPR as an effective and successful mechanism of the Human Rights Council in human rights promotion and protection worldwide, rested on the principles of universality, fairness, consensus, cooperation and dialogue.
Peace, development and guarantee of human rights always represent the common desire of the international community. These are the areas where the United Nations, particularly the Human Rights Council, have been exerting a central role.
The Vietnamese Government has doubled efforts to implement its human rights policies, including the UPR recommendations accepted at the previous cycle.
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