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In UPR: Vietnam commits to promoting protection of human rights
In UPR: Vietnam commits to promoting protection of human rights
23/1/19
Vietnam regards the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as an obligation of a responsible member of the United Nations (UN) as well as an opportunity to introduce the country’s consistent policies, efforts and achievements in protecting human rights, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung.
He made the statement at a dialogue session on Vietnam’s national report under the third-cycle UPR of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 22.
The report was prepared with the involvement of Party and State agencies, domestic and international non-governmental organisations, researchers and individuals.
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, Vietnam 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, he said.
Economic growth has been maintained at more than 6 percent per year, helping create millions of jobs.
The poverty rate reduced to 7.7 percent in 2017 from 9.9 percent in 2015, especially in remote and ethnic minority inhabited areas.
Vietnam has also joined UN human rights related mechanisms such as the Special Procedures of the HRC, Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Vietnam’s UPR session drew 122 countries which recognised the nation’s policies, efforts and achievements in ensuring human rights and implementing UPR recommendations.
Many developing countries appreciated Vietnam’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.
The session took place in an open and candid atmosphere. Participating countries hoped Vietnam will continue with dialogues and international cooperation on human rights, making more contributions to the international community’s efforts to promote and protect human rights.
The Vietnamese delegation fielded a lot of questions and provided more information about policies, laws and reality on the promotion and protection of human rights in Vietnam. They received a diversity of recommendations covering all fields.
The delegation comprised of representatives from the Government Office, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security, the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuracy.
The UPR working group is scheduled to meet on January 25 to consider the approval of Vietnam’s report which will be submitted to the HRC for official adoption in June 2019.
Established in 2008, the UPR aims to review the protection and promotion of human rights in all member countries via constructive dialogues.
Vietnam has joined all UPR cycles and seriously and fully implemented recommendations it received./.
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Vietnam’s viewpoint on the recognition, respect, protection and guarantee of human rights as well as the fundamental rights and obligations of citizens has been firmly clarified in the amended Constitution.
All basic civil, economic, cultural, and social rights and obligations of citizens are stipulated by the Constitution, and any limitation of rights must be specified by law.
In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, human rights and citizens' rights in the political, civil, economic, cultural and social fields shall be recognised, respected, protected and guaranteed in accordance with the Constitution and law.
Vietnam has attained many achievements in ensuring human rights in all fields ranging from civil society, politics and economics to culture and social welfare that gained international recognition and appreciation.
The erroneous and prejudiced information on the practicing of human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam indicated in U.S. bills does not reflect correctly the real situation in Vietnam, and is not in line with the development of the two countries’ relations
Human rights and citizens' rights may not be limited unless prescribed by a law solely in case of necessity for reasons of national defense, national security, social order and safety, social morality and community well-being.
The specification of human rights and added content on citizens’ rights is based on the outcome of human development efforts through nearly 30 years of the country’s renewal.
The amendments concerning human rights are a specific move demonstrating Vietnam ’s commitment to realising International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the 1948 Human Rights Declaration.
The State shall create the conditions for citizens to participate in the management of the State and society; and shall publicly and transparently receive and respond to the opinions and petitions of citizens.
In Vietnam, there are no so-called “dissidents” since every opinion is expressed freely and respected. However, any activity in any sovereign country must comply with that country’s law. In Vietnam, there is no suppression of “dissidents”; only law violations are brought to trial according to regulations, regardless of who the violators are.
Each country has its own standards and values selected and built by that country’s people, providing that those standards do not run counter to common international regulations and norms.
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