Human rights project

At UN forums as well as regional forums related to human rights, today's participation is not limited to informing the international community about policies, laws and achievements of Vietnam in ensuring human rights. Grasping the spirit of the Party Secretariat's Directive No. 25 on promoting and enhancing multilateral foreign relations by 2030, Vietnam has gradually contributed more substantially to forums, by sharing its approaches and experiences, actively contributing responsibility to issues that the international community cares about, as well as willing to play a core role, ready to act as a bridge, mediating when necessary. … [Read more...] about Human rights considerations: Dialogue and cooperation are the only effective way

The UN Human Rights Council's UPR mechanism was established in 2008 and is one of the outstanding successes, built on the principles of transparency, fairness, non-discrimination, promoting dialogue and cooperation between countries. With a consistent policy on the protection and promotion of human rights, Vietnam attaches special importance to and always fully and seriously implement its obligations and commitments in line with UPR mechanism, including the implementation of approved UPR recommendations. During cycle three, Vietnam received 291 recommendations from 122 countries and accepted 241 of them. On December 31, 2019, the Vietnamese Prime Minister approved the Master Plan to implement UPR recommendations cycle three, which Vietnam approved in Decision No. 1974/QD-TTg.  … [Read more...] about Vietnam promotes and protects human rights in Covid-19 epidemic

Thirdly, the law to protect Personal information has not caught up with the practice of using personal data such as personal image data (facial recognition technology), biometric data (for example finger print, iris)… Therefore, when enterprises use these data, there is a problem that whether the current Personal information protection regulations are applied to these enterprises or not. Is there a need for stricter measures for businesses that collect and use consumer biometric data? The reason is that, if a person's "address", "phone number" is also classified in Personal information, it is clear that the biometric data can also be considered as "data" or "Personal information" but the "sensitivity" of these data is much larger than information about "phone number" or "name", "age" of the subject of Personal information. … [Read more...] about Human rights viewed from illegal sales of personal information

The quality of education, human resources are limited and the distance is quite far from the general level of the society; the ratio of people in the working age who are vocationally trained is low; there is still a proportion of the population that are illiterate or re-illiterate, along with low educational level, which limits their ability to access and enjoy development achievements associated with the criteria of basic rights. … [Read more...] about Building a specialized monitoring agency to increase effectiveness in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities

To seriously implement the guiding of the Government of facilitating Vietnamese abroad to go home, based on appropriate priority order and the country’s ability for quarantine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has coordinated closely with relevant ministries, departments and agencies, using all domestic resources and capabilities to organize flights to bring back our citizens as soon as possible. … [Read more...] about A special flight to guarantee citizens’ right to life