"The training conference on human rights work in the Central and Central Highlands regions will contribute to improving the quality of advisory work as well as skills and experience in handling situations in the field of human rights, improving the work of ensuring and fighting for human rights at the local level in the new situation," Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son, Chief of the Human Rights Office, emphasized at the opening ceremony in
on December 22.
Affirming that the Party and State of Vietnam always identify human rights as a common value of humanity, human rights as the goal and driving force of social development, and the nature of the socialist regime, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son said that Vietnam is a member state of 7/9 core treaties on human rights and has made many efforts to ensure a balance between urgent measures to prevent COVID-19 as well as respect for its legal obligations under the provisions of international law and the Constitution and national laws.
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| Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son, Chief of the Vietnam Human Rights Office, delivered the opening speech at the conference. |
Under the strong leadership of the Party and
Government , in 2020, Vietnam was assessed as a typical country in effectively responding to COVID-19, protecting the right to life and providing health care for the people. In the new context, the training conference on human rights in the Central Highlands region will contribute to improving the quality of advisory work as well as skills and experience in handling situations in the field of human rights, improving the work of ensuring human rights at the local level. At the conference, Mr. Phan Tan Canh, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ninh Thuan province, said that Ninh Thuan province currently has a population of only 600,000 people, including 34 ethnic groups living together, of which the Cham ethnic group has 79,819 people (accounting for 11% of the province's population), is a place that preserves many valuable heritages of Champa culture. Ninh Thuan has 10 different religions with 184,577 followers (accounting for nearly 1/3 of the province's population).
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| Mr. Phan Tan Canh, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee spoke at the conference. |
Ninh Thuan is a locality with strong and sustainable development in terms of economy, culture and society, and is considered the center of renewable energy in the country. Mr. Phan Tan Canh affirmed that the conference will update new knowledge in the work of protecting human rights in all fields, and is also an opportunity for the locality to share achievements in economic,
political , cultural and social aspects... At the conference, the reporters presented human rights topics on ensuring and promoting the rights of ethnic minorities, freedom of religion and belief, protecting human rights in cyberspace, the issue of access to transparent information, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring rights for workers in the CPTPP and EVFTA agreements... Thereby providing a new perspective on the work of protecting human rights in the new situation; Identifying that ensuring human rights is the nature of Vietnamese society and is a solid strength to fight against the false and distorted arguments of enemy forces.
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| Conference overview. |
Mr. Tran Chi Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, affirmed that Vietnam always fully implements its international commitments on human rights, strengthens cooperation and dialogue on human rights, actively participates in global, regional and sub-regional multilateral forums on human rights, enhances the image of Vietnam, and helps international friends have an objective view on the issue of ensuring human rights in Vietnam today. At the end of the conference, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son affirmed that the training conference on human rights work in the Central - Central Highlands region was a great success. The team of reporters, who are leaders of the Department and Bureau levels, effectively conveyed information and updated situations on the work of ensuring and fighting for human rights in a constructive spirit. The delegates contributed opinions and shared practical experiences, contributing to practically serving human rights work in localities. In the coming time, the world situation continues to have complicated developments, the COVID-19 pandemic has not been controlled, the challenges of the domestic socio-economic situation have, are and will affect the work of ensuring and protecting human rights, the Chief of the Human Rights Office proposed to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of work, in which improving the working capacity of staff directly doing human rights work is identified as a breakthrough; focusing on solving difficult problems in the practice of local human rights work, in order to best ensure human rights work in the new situation, the goal is to best ensure human rights and civil rights./.
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