Local agency that provides family counseling

Secondly, institutional building: Building a specialized agency to oversee the rights of ethnic minorities is necessary. This is consistent with Article 2 of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, which allows states to take special measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms of ethnic minority groups. The fact also shows that the lack of a specialized monitoring agency will reduce the effectiveness of ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities. … [Read more...] about Building a specialized monitoring agency to increase effectiveness in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities

Nevertheless, Vietnam has actively implemented activities in response to climate change, developing its economy towards low-carbon development and green growth, and promoting the implementation of potential mitigation measures in the energy, industry, transport, agriculture and waste sectors, as well as improving the carbon sequestration capacity in the land use, land-use change and forestry sector. … [Read more...] about Vietnam determined to reduce GHG emissions by 9 percent in 2030

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam records from 10-15 flash floods each year, mostly in the northern mountainous, central, Central Highlands and southeastern regions, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Vu Duc Long said on January 15. He informed that the country is building a project to assess disaster risks in regions and make a flash flood and landslide warning map in the mountainous and midland regions. Accordingly, the project will be carried out in 37 mountainous provinces and 34 main river basins and 95 sub-basins. It will offer flash flood risk maps for 14 northern mountainous provinces at the 1:100,000 scale and 19 central and Central Highlands localities at the 1:50,000 scale, while providing data of cross-section measurements in 36 small river basins in the northern mountainous region and topographic maps at the 1: 5,000 scale for 58 residential areas at risk of flash floods in 19 central and Central Highlands localities./. … [Read more...] about Vietnam witnesses 10-15 flash floods each year

Hanoi (VNA) - Tet gifts from the Ministry of National Defence and the navy as well as specialties from around the country are being delivered to personnel at offshore economic, scientific, and technical service stations, known as DK1 platforms, and in Con Dao island district. Two delegations from the Naval Region 2 Command departed from the military port of its Brigade 171 in Vung Tau city, the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, on January 14, taking Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to 15 DK1 platforms and Con Dao district on Vietnam’ southern continental shelf. Tonnes of gifts and essential goods were loaded onto two vessels, Truong Sa 19 and Truong Sa 21, on January 13. They include fresh food such as poultry and vegetables, confectionery, as well as glutinous rice, “dong” leaves, and mung beans, for making “chung” cakes - a traditional dish at Tet. Branches of apricot and peach blossom buds, which are symbols of Tet, are also onboard. The ships are … [Read more...] about Warmth of Tet coming to staff on offshore platforms

The road-dyke also helps connect economic centres of districts in the eastern part of Ben Tre, facilitating the exploitation of local resources for socio-economic development in combination with enhancing security-defence in the coastal areas, the official said./. … [Read more...] about Ben Tre inaugurates sea dyke to prevent saline intrusion