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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 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

In order to facillitate the implementation of the updated NDC, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is tasked to hold prime responsibility for coordinating with relevant ministries, agencies to develop the Support Programme to implement NDC for the period 2021-2030, and to update the national strategy on climate change for the period 2021-2025 which will include goals stated in the updated NDC and contents required in the Paris Agreement. … [Read more...] about Vietnam determined to reduce GHG emissions by 9 percent in 2030

It is forecast that there will be more cold spells in January. Thua Thien-Hue Steering Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Search and Rescue will set up an inspection team to find the cause and propose solutions to the problem. The local authorities must allocate funding to deal with the damage and support the farmers, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 17

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