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
Green building project
If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
The National Assembly recently discussed the overall scheme for socio-economic development in the remote and mountainous areas and the areas in particularly difficult conditions. This will make an important contribution to linking the national socio-economic development goals in each period with the sustainable development goal No. 9 "Eradicating poverty in all forms everywhere" and the sustainable development goal No. 9 "Building solid infrastructure to promote open and sustainable industrialization and encouraging innovation" under the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda to 2030. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
HCMC aiming at becoming specialized medical center of ASEAN
The third goal is to implement effective and precise diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation methods which are now commonly used in nations with high medical levels in the region. There will be an introduction of outpatient departments in major hospitals that are normally overcrowded like the Children Hospital, the Oncology Hospital, the Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics, People Hospital 115. … [Read more...] about HCMC aiming at becoming specialized medical center of ASEAN