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.


 

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