The Ministry of Information and Communications, the Office of the Government Steering Committee on Human Rights, and the People’s Committee of Hoa Binh jointly organised a training conference in Hoa Binh city on December 7 on external information regarding human rights.
The event drew Le Hai Binh, alternate member of the Party
Central Committee, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for
Information and Education and deputy head of the Central Steering Committee for
External Information Affairs; Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the Hoa Binh
People’s Committee; and 280 delegates engaging in external information on human
rights from 26 northern cities and provinces.
An overview of the conference.
Addressing the event, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen
Van Chuong underlined that along with socio-economic development, human rights
work in Hoa Binh has received great attention, especially policies regarding
security-defence, ethnic-religious affairs, and social welfare, thus ensuring
the life and rights of local residents, including those from ethnic minority
groups. At the same time, Hoa Binh has also focused on preserving and promoting
the cultural values of the locality.
At the conference, Le Hai Binh, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s
Commission for Information and Education, briefed participants on Conclusion
No.57-KL/TW issued by the Politburo on continuing to enhance the quality and
efficiency of external information in the new situation, which clarifies
requirements for communications and external information on human rights.
He updated delegates on major achievements of Vietnam in ensuring and promoting
human rights, as well as some sabotage activities by hostile forces, while
sumarising the contents of a model conference on the mechanism to provide
information to the press on human rights work and periodic external information
releases. Binh also highlighted the major contents of the fifth national report
on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
At the event, participants discussed the situation of taking advantage of
religious issues in the country recently and experience in instructing the
media in the field. They also shared experience and sought ways to settle
difficulties in implementing Decision No. 1079/QD-TTg approving a project on
human rights communications in Vietnam.
The conference provided participants with professional capacity in external
information on human rights, enhancing their role and responsibility in
speaking and providing press information at the local level, thus contributing
to fighting and refuting hostile forces’ wrongful viewpoints and abuse of
democratic human rights issues to harm Vietnam.
In late March, 29 labourers from Da Bac district were sent to work as seasonal farm workers in Buyeo county, Chungcheongnam province, the Republic of Korea (RoK). Upon arrival, they quickly settled into their jobs, enjoying good working conditions and benefits, with wages aligned with the terms of their signed contracts. The programme is now being expanded, with relevant departments and sectors actively seeking additional seasonal employment opportunities in various localities across the RoK.
Luong Son Industrial Park has invested in standardised wastewater and emissions treatment systems, enforced tight emission controls, reduced noise, dust, and solid waste, and expanded green spaces, contributing to protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development.
Hoa Binh police are collecting public feedback on amendments to the 2013 Constitution via the national identification app VNeID. This innovative approach marks a giant leap towards modernising grassroots democracy and enhancing transparency in public consultation.
A total public investment capital of 113 billion VND (over 4.3 million USD) was disbursed for a project to upgrade infrastructure and stabilise residents in the vicinity of the Da River reservoir between 2021 and the first quarter of 2025, giving a facelift to local rural areas and improving the quality of people's life.
Since the end of 2023-2024 academic year, Cu Yen Primary and Secondary School in Luong Son district has deployed e-study records for all of its 500 primary students, said the school principal Nguyen Thi Tuyen.
The Labour Federation of Hoa Binh city has actively worked to protect the rights and welfare of nearly 8,000 local workers and union members at 152 grassroots unions. Through regular dialogues, education campaigns, and welfare programmes, the federation has helped foster stable, progressive labour relations.
