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Politburo member, Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Economic Commission and former Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said that the MoIT has made every effort to overcome many difficulties and challenges in the past tenure to achieve the set targets, making significant contributions to national development and international integration. At the conference, the former minister also highlighted the main areas of the industry and trade sector, including institutional building, administrative reform, personnel work and e-Government building, among others. He also emphasised that Vietnam has become a nation with important contributions to the globalisation process through the signing of a series of new-generation free trade agreements which have been attributed to the efforts of staff at the MoIT. Former minister Tran Tuan Anh also expressed his hope that he and the MoIT will implement various activities to promote Vietnam’s industry, particularly in the development of new energy sources to protect the environment. “To boost the sustainable development of the industry and trade sector, I and leaders of the Party Central Committee's Economic Commission will always accompany the industry and trade sector and the MoIT to effectively implement tasks towards the development of the sector and the national economy,” Anh noted. He expressed his belief that Nguyen Hong Dien and the staff at the MoIT would continue to accomplish their assigned tasks while wishing Dien a successful term of office. …

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Violence against women in Vietnam remains very much hidden and more actions must be taken to change the situation. As many as 63% of Vietnamese married women have experienced one or more forms of physical, sexual, emotional and economic violence and controlling behaviors by their husbands in their lifetime, according to a newly-released study. As many as 63% of Vietnamese married women suffer at least one kind of violence in their lifetime It means that nearly two in three married women in Vietnam have suffered at least one kind of domestic violence, according to a study that is backed technically and financially by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). This is the second study conducted in Vietnam, making it the only country in the world so far making a study that specifically uses cross-culturally validated methodology developed by the World Health Organization. Managed by Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) in collaboration with the General Statistics Office (GSO), this study enables a better understanding of what has changed since the first study in 2010, as well as what has not, and what needs to be in place for strengthening gender equality and ending gender-based violence in Vietnam. The 2019 study has three parts: a quantitative survey, conducted by GSO; a qualitative study by the Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP); and an economic costing of violence by international experts commissioned by UNFPA. Nearly 6,000 women aged 15 to 64 were interviewed, with the results showing that most of the violence against women in Vietnam is perpetrated by their husbands or partners. The study also shows that with the exception of sexual violence, the prevalence of different types of violence against women, perpetrated by husbands, was slightly lower in 2019 than in 2010, and positive change may be happening …

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Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia n Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly has urged ASEAN nations to strengthen legal integration in order to get their voices heard in the international community. He said in a statement on April 14 that in order for this integration to be more stable, credible, and effective, a more binding legal basis is needed. The integration of ASEAN laws means that member nations will need to harmonise their domestic laws and regulations, thereby strengthening the system and rule of law in the ASEAN region as a whole, he remarked. Laoly said that the integration of the legal instruments of ASEAN member countries presents its own challenges due to differences in legal systems and practices in each country when it comes to adopting international laws. However, the legal cooperation between ASEAN countries, which has been initiated since the signing of a free trade agreement in 1992, shows that harmonisation is not impossible, he added. Since the signing of the 1992 Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area, ASEAN member countries have collaborated to fight trans-national crime, money laundering, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and piracy. The countries must also continue to strengthen their legal and policy frameworks to manage the response to COVID-19, including recovery efforts, according to the minister./. VNA …

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