Bringing legal knowledge to ethnic minorities

Authorities coordinate to disseminate laws 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 level. 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 Coordination Council for Legal Education 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 education 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 consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas in the period of 2015 - 2025"; Project "Strengthening legal dissemination to raise legal awareness for young people". The work of legal dissemination in the province has recently been innovated in form and improved in quality. Every year, the Provincial Council for Legal Dissemination has conducted field surveys at the grassroots level on information needs, forms of legal dissemination and dissemination, and propaganda and mobilization to select key and focal content, build and replicate pilot models. Many good, creative and effective models in legal dissemination 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; models of legal dissemination and dissemination under the Women's Union at all levels to raise awareness, reduce incestuous marriages; women participate in protecting borders and landmarks... The Law Dissemination Council, 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 law dissemination and education for ethnic minorities. In particular, many units have effectively implemented the propaganda and law dissemination to the people, such as: Provincial Border Guard; Provincial Police; Women's Union; Provincial Youth Union...

Typically, from 2022 to present, 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; mobilizing 1,950 households, nearly 6,200 people not to migrate freely, illegally enter and exit the country. 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 and dissemination of legal information and determined that this is a part of political and ideologicaleducation , 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 guidelines and the State's policies and laws in ethnic minority areas.

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