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Hanoi promotes human rights
Minh Nguyen 18:15, 2023/07/15
Hanoi keeps the public updated on human rights protection and maintains its efforts in ensuring freedom of expression, religious freedom, and rights of vulnerable groups.

A series of activities have been launched in Hanoi as part of efforts to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Human Rights Day (December 10).

 Vietnam attends a United Nations General Assembly session in New York, US. Photo: VNA

To make the celebration effective, the Human Rights Steering Committee of Hanoi has focused on disseminating basic rights to ensure human rights in the city while timely responding to distorted news with sufficient evidence and based on practical situations.

The propaganda has been diversified in models, languages, and communication channels, emphasizing digital tools and social networks to timely provide official information to people in and outside Vietnam.

To make communication effective, the committee has organized different events on the topics to train officials at grassroots levels and reporters from news agencies in the city.

Furthermore, it has actively updated the city’s achievements in all fields regardless of freedom of expression, religious freedom, and rights of vulnerable groups. At the same time, the agency has kept the public updated on complicated cases involving those who violated the law on human rights enforcement.

More broadly, ensuring human rights have been constitutionalized in Vietnam’s law and given top priority by the state.

Over the years, the country has worked with international organizations to ensure rights are fully respected. It has maintained the Universal Periodical Review (UPR) – a unique procedure that examines the human rights record of each UN member state. Under the supervision of the Human Rights Council, the UPR is a State-driven process that gives Vietnam a chance to explain the steps it has taken to advance the state of human rights in the nation and to uphold its human rights obligations.

In 2022, Vietnam won a seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for 2023-2025. It demonstrates the country’s practical efforts in ensuring human rights and raising social welfare.

Vietnam’s Human Development Index (HDI) increased by 45% between 1990-2019, placing it among the countries with the highest HDI growth rates.


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