According to the decision of the Minister - Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities, in the period 2021-2025, Ca Mau province has 43 villages with special difficulties in ethnic minority areas. In which, Dam Doi district has 10 hamlets, U Minh and Thoi Binh districts have 7 hamlets, Tran Van Thoi district has 12 hamlets, Phu Tan district has 4 hamlets and Nam Can district has 2 hamlets. Also in this period, according to the Prime Minister's decision approving the list of regional communes belonging to ethnic minority areas and mountainous areas, Ca Mau has 1 ward in region I and 5 communes in region III ethnic minority area. This is the basis for implementing social security policies, especially the National Target Program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period, including legal aid for ethnic minorities in extremely difficult areas.
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| The lives of ethnic minorities in general and in Hamlet 7, Tan Loc commune in particular have been improved, especially in economic terms. However, it is necessary to continue to be equipped with legal knowledge, including legal aid policies, so that people can actively contact and cooperate to protect their legitimate rights and interests before the law. Photo: HOANG VU |
Ethnic minorities in Ca Mau are mainly Khmer, living scatteredly, in which they are concentrated in districts: Thoi Binh, U Minh, Tran Van Thoi, Dam Doi. Although the people's lives have been improved in all aspects thanks to the care of the Party committees and authorities at all levels, there are still difficulties and need to continue to support, especially in equipping with legal knowledge and legal aid.
Being at Hamlet 7, Tan Loc commune, Thoi Binh district, you can see all the above facts. Mr. Huu Khanh, Head of Hamlet 7, said that the language restriction of the people has affected the access and understanding of legal regulations, especially in accessing legal aid policies. When an incident with legal elements occurs, it is the shyness and fear of communication that ethnic minorities rarely learn about, in order to get legal support.
Mr. Ngo Duc Binh, Deputy Director of the Provincial Legal Aid Center, said that the awareness of ethnic minorities is still limited, they do not understand the policies brought by legal aid, leading to many cases where they negotiate or defend themselves, affecting their legitimate rights and interests. Mr. Binh also acknowledged that, in the past time, the propaganda about this policy to beneficiaries has not been effective, mainly due to the initiative of legal aid beneficiaries towards legal aid recipients when detecting cases that need help and need their own skills in approaching subjects.
From the reality of the above general situation, Ms. Mai Tu Nhi, Vice Chairman of Tan Loc Commune People's Committee, wishes that in addition to strengthening the coordination between units in equipping legal knowledge through the form of communication, it is necessary to raise people's awareness of the legal aid policy so that they can understand the humanity of the policy, actively contacting legal aid consultants when there is a legitimate need to protect their rights and interests. On the local side, Ms. Nhi said she would continue to strengthen the commune-level steering committee, further promote oral communication to the hamlets, especially in Hamlet 7 where ethnic minorities still face difficulties, in order to improve their knowledge of access to the law, including the legal aid policy.
With housing and land support, Ms. Huu Thi My Le (right), Hamlet 7, Tan Loc commune accumulated, opened a small business to care for her family to have a more progressive life, improve understanding of the law. Photo: Hoang Vu
Regarding the results of legal aid, Mr. Ngo Duc Binh said that in the first months of this year, this work in ethnic minority areas in extremely difficult areas continued to receive attention, having carried out 66 cases, mainly civil cases, related in the field of land disputes, agreements in borrowing money, etc. In which, 26 cases of legal aid work, mainly involved in legal aid proceedings, were directly involved in legal proceedings. legitimate rights and interests in accordance with regulations.
Legal aid is considered a policy of "lawful poverty reduction" in the overall poverty reduction policies of the Party and State that have been implemented. In order for the legal aid policy to come to life, especially for the beneficiaries according to regulations when there is a need, there should be more positive, drastic and effective solutions in the coming time. Referring to many solutions, Mr. Ngo Duc Binh said, first of all, it is necessary to improve the propaganda work with specific cases brought by legal aid, it is necessary to affirm that this is a humanitarian policy, free assistance, so that they can see their benefits and actively cooperate and cooperate. Along with that, improving the skills and professional qualifications of legal assistants, especially the ability to communicate, understand the culture of the people...
According to the provisions of the Law on Legal Aid 2017, in order to enjoy the legal aid policy, ethnic minorities must reside in extremely difficult socio-economic areas. In addition, ethnic minorities in one of the following categories are also entitled to legal aid regardless of their place of residence: EM people are people with meritorious services to the revolution, EM people are people from poor households, EM people are children, EM people are people accused of being from full 16 to under 18 years old, and EM people are people accused of belonging to a near-poor household. Ethnic minorities are people who belong to one of eight categories of people with financial difficulties: biological fathers, natural mothers, spouses, children of martyrs and people who have contributed to raising martyrs when they were young; people infected with Agent Orange; Elderly; People with disabilities; persons from full 1 years old to under 8 years old are victims in criminal cases; victims in domestic violence cases; victims of human trafficking in accordance with the Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking; HIV-infected people.
Tran Nguyen
