Bringing legal knowledge to ethnic minorities

Authorities coordinate to disseminate the law to ethnic minorities in Tua Chua district. Photo: Contributor

Our province has 19 ethnic groups living together, including ethnic groups with very few people such as Cong, Si La, Phu La living concentrated in the highlands, facing many difficulties in life, and uneven educational levels. That leads to a situation where some areas have social evils and law violations due to lack of understanding of the law.

Identifying the provision of legal knowledge to ethnic minorities and mountainous areas as one of the important tasks, in recent years the Provincial Legal Dissemination Coordination Council has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue directive documents and implement them. On that basis, all levels and sectors have paid attention to implementing many programs and projects on legal dissemination or integrating them into implementation, such as: National target program on drug prevention and control and crime prevention and control; Project "Propaganda and dissemination of laws on corruption prevention and control; Project "Reducing child marriage and incestuous marriage in ethnic minority areas in the period of 2015 - 2025"; Project "Strengthening legal dissemination to raise legal awareness for youth". The work of legal dissemination and education in the province has recently been innovated in form and improved in quality. Every year, the Provincial Council for Legal Dissemination and Education has organized a field survey at the grassroots level on information needs, forms of legal dissemination and education, and propaganda and mobilization to select key and central contents, build and replicate pilot models. Many good, creative and effective models in legal dissemination and education have been deployed and replicated, such as: Commune-level Information and Communication Board model; "one question a day, one law a week" model; "self-governing clans, peaceful villages" model; legal dissemination and education models under the Women's Union at all levels to raise awareness, reduce incestuous marriages; women participate in protecting borders and landmarks... The Council for Legal Education and Dissemination, at all levels and functional sectors have organized many competitions to learn about the law and mobilized people from all walks of life to participate in the competition; organized direct legal education and dissemination for ethnic minorities. In particular, many units have effectively carried out propaganda and legal education to the people, such as: Provincial Border Guard; Provincial Police; Women's Union; Provincial Youth Union...

Typically, from 2022 to now, the provincial border guard force has coordinated with local Party committees, authorities, and relevant forces, in various forms, to organize concentrated and individual propaganda on loudspeakers of border villages and communes, through "Border Guard Loudspeaker" and through cultural and artistic performances to propagate the National Border Law; Vietnam Border Law; Law on Beliefs and Religions; Law on Forest Protection and Development... combined with mobilizing people to raise vigilance, actively participate in the fight against crime, not to assist criminals in 1,886 sessions for nearly 88,000 people; mobilized 1,950 households, nearly 6,200 people not to migrate freely, enter and exit the country illegally. Thereby, contributing to raising awareness for people in border areas to believe in the leadership of the Party and the cause of national renewal; Raise revolutionary vigilance, prevent the "peaceful evolution" plot of hostile forces; gradually eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, improve the material and spiritual life of people in the province's border areas; strengthen the grassroots political system of strong border communes.

Implementing the Law on Dissemination of Legal Information, agencies, units and localities have fully and correctly recognized the position, role and importance of propaganda work, dissemination of legal information and identified this as a part of political and ideological education work, the first step in law enforcement and the responsibility of the entire political system. In particular, promoting the role of grassroots reporters, propagandists, village elders, village chiefs, and prestigious people in propaganda work has contributed significantly to changing awareness, changing behavior, and raising awareness of self-consciousness in complying with the Party's policies and the State's laws in ethnic minority areas.

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