Law on human rights

For over 30 years of Doi Moi, ensuring and promoting human rights has made great achievements, which are important for the cause of building socialism and protecting the country. For over 30 years of Doi Moi, ensuring and promoting human rights has made great achievements, which are important for the cause of building socialism and protecting the country. The consistent viewpoints of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the State of Vietnam on ensuring and promoting human rights have been deeply understood and implemented thoroughly by the Party Committees and administrations at all levels, creating fundamental and positive changes in the entire political system. The documents of the XII CPV Congress defines: Exercising human rights, basic rights and obligations of citizens in the spirit of the 2013 Constitution; attaching rights with responsibilities, obligations, upholding social morality. The Party and the State have mechanisms and policies to protect and ensure the good implementation of human rights and citizens' rights, in the direction of: attaching importance to the care of happiness of comprehensive development of people, protecting and ensuring legitimate rights and interests of the people, respecting and implementing international human rights treaties on human rights that Vietnam has signed. Recently, the Conclusion of the Secretariat of the XII Party Central Committee on the continued implementation of Directive No. 44-CT/TW, dated July 20, 2010 of the Secretariat of the X Party Central Committee on human rights tasks in the new situation clearly stated: Institutionalizing the Party's line, the legal system has been gradually improved, especially the National Assembly passed the 2013 Constitution, which creates a solid legal basis for the protection and enforcement of human rights and for prevention and handling of violations of human rights. At present, the impact of the socialist-oriented market economy and international …

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  Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Affairs Phan Thanh Bình. — VNA/VNS Photo Phan Tuấn Anh  On the sidelines of the ongoing 13th National Party Congress, Phan Thanh Bình, member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Affairs talked with the Vietnam News Agency about the development of education, training, and human resources Given the achievements after seven years of implementing the Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW on fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education, how is this task reflected in draft documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress? The draft documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress evaluated carefully both achievements and shortcomings in education and training innovation. Over the past seven years, we have built up a foundation and gained initial results. New perspectives and perceptions have been brought into education such as transforming education from knowledge provision to comprehensive development of learners in terms of capabilities and personal qualities, strengthening self-financing in higher education. Positive results can be seen, and the Việt Nam National Qualifications Framework has also been issued, stipulating the minimum learning outcomes for a tertiary level, which means all majors at one level must meet the minimum output standards specified in the framework. The draft document also pointed out that innovation in education and training has yet to become a key driver for the socio-economic growth and there are issues that need to be tackled in the near future. The draft document stipulated that innovation in education is a must and affirmed education and training development must be associated with socio-economic development and innovative science and technology. It is our goal to train human …

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Nga came online with her silver hair in rollers."My hair is way too long now. I have not made time for a haircut yet," she said, explaining the hair rollers in a video call with VnExpress International from her apartment in Paris, where she lives by herself.At almost 80, Nga gives herself no time to rest. She is busy with indictments, statements, speeches and interviews, especially since last January when her name became a byword for a doughty fighter.On January 25, Nga’s profile shot up among millions interested in the Vietnam War in general and Agent Orange in particular. That day, she officially filed a suit against 14 companies that supplied the U.S. Army with the notorious, toxic defoliant during the Vietnam War. Studies have shown that they knew it was toxic but decided to make it for profit anyway. The case was filed in the southern Paris suburb of Evry.The defendants in Nga’s case are on top of a Who’s Who list in international agriculture, like Monsanto and Dow Chemicals. She has accused them of being responsible for physical ailments and mental suffering sustained by her, her children and countless others, as well as for severe damage done to the environment."This is not my trial alone, this is not my fight alone. By now, the name Tran To Nga should only be a symbol. This is a fight for the people, for truth," she said.Nga suffers from certain typical Agent Orange effects, including type 2 diabetes and an extremely rare insulin allergy. She has contracted tuberculosis twice and a cancer once. She lost one of her daughters to a malformation in the heart. She has also suffered Alpha Thalassemie, which results in impaired production of hemoglobin, the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood, and her daughter and grandchild have the syndrome. Tran To Nga during a rally to call for justice for Agent Orange victims in Paris, 2019. Photo by Collectif Vietnam Dioxine. Nga, a naturalized French citizen now, has been fully backed by Vietnam in …

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