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According to Ha Viet Quan - Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department, Committee for Ethnic Minorities, ethnic minority groups, which make up nearly 14% of the Vietnamese population, are facing structural and informal inequalities. . Extensive inherent inequality includes employment, income, education, access to health services, reproductive health due to remote areas and cultural practices. Gender inequality with ethnic women is part of a social structure that also exists at both the family and individual levels, where discrimination against women and the lack of resources have been hindering ethnic minority women speak up, practice leadership in families and communities; The voice of women in the community is very limited. … [Read more...] about Efforts to empower ethnic minority women

Kon Tum (VNA) - About 200 sets of winter clothes were presented to primary school students in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum by the Vietnam News Agency’s representative office in the Central and Central Highlands region and the Kon Tum Power Company on the morning of January 26. The students, who are from the Xe Dang ethnic minority group, are studying at the Dak Nen Semi-Boarding Primary School for Ethnic Minorities in Dak Nen commune, Kon Plong district. The school has a total of eight campuses, the farthest of which is in Dak Puk Village, 30km away from the centre of Dak Nen. The Dak Pao campus has only five students in first grade; the smallest number of all. The handover was part of a programme to bring impoverished children in mountainous and ethnic minority areas a warmer Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Ethnic minorities in remote Dak Nen commune face many hardships, said Principal Le Tan Truong Anh. Most of the students have to walk a long distance to … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency brings warmer Tet to poor ethnic children in Kon Tum

Nguyễn Xuân Thắng, Director of Việt Nam’s Hồ Chí Minh National Academy of Politics, was also quoted by The Star as saying that among the documents submitted to the Congress, there were “numerous new items, especially in terms of approach.” … [Read more...] about 13th National Party Congress makes international headlines

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam has gained impressive achievements in poverty reduction in recent years under the leadership of the Party and the Government, but more will be done to ensure these efforts leave sustainable impacts. Under the leadership of the Party and the Government, localities nationwide have implemented solutions and programmes to help local people develop suitable livelihood models to escape poverty and improve their lives, especially in 2016-2020. The Muong Nhe Nature Reserve in the northern province of Dien Bien started to implement a project to develop the livelihood based on the forest in five communes in the buffer zone of the forest. The project of planting Sa nhan tim (Amomum longiligulare T.L.Wu), a valuable species of medical plants, was first conducted in Sin Thau commune, the westernmost area of the country. Initially, local people were reluctant to join the project as they were unaware of the economic benefits gained from growing … [Read more...] about Vietnam achieves poverty reduction goals

The National Assembly plays an important role in perfecting the legal framework for building a socialist-oriented market economy, building a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people, and completing state governance institutions, upholding the supervisory role of the people's power agency. Through the implementation of legislative, supervisory and decision-making functions on important national issues, the National Assembly discussed, passed laws, national strategies, and decided on the budget for the targeted program related to sustainable development, especially in the areas of environmental protection, climate change response, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, caring for ethnic minority and high-risk areas... … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved