Vietnam prepares for UN Human Rights review
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is committed to the success of the UN’s Human Rights Council and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism, said Deputy Foreign Miniter Nguyen Quoc Cuong at a workshop in Hanoi on Nov. 25.
Vietnam shares the hopes of the international community that the UN’s Human Rights Council will make a positive development in international cooperation over human right issues, serving as a forum for effective cooperation and mutual understanding, with adequate respect to the traditions, culture and self-determination of every nation, Cuong said.
Vietnam has established an inter-agency mechanism to make preparations for its first comprehensive report on human rights conditions.
UN’s resident coordinator in Vietnam Jesper Morch praised the country’s participation in most of the major international conventions on human rights and cited its remarkable progress in poverty reduction and its implementation of the Millenium Development Goals, with a substantial portion of its social benefits allocated to the nation’s most needy.
However, he said, the protection of human rights, socio-economic development and social security expansion remain challenges to Vietnam .
The two-day workshop was organised with the aim of providing knowledge and experience for Vietnamese experts in preparation for the submission of the country’s report next year.
Under the terms of the mechanism, the UN’s Human Rights Council reviews the human rights conditions of all 192 UN members every four years as a reminder to the countries of their obligations to the protection and implementation of basic freedoms and human rights.
Vietnam has established an inter-agency mechanism to make preparations for its first comprehensive report on human rights conditions.
UN’s resident coordinator in Vietnam Jesper Morch praised the country’s participation in most of the major international conventions on human rights and cited its remarkable progress in poverty reduction and its implementation of the Millenium Development Goals, with a substantial portion of its social benefits allocated to the nation’s most needy.
However, he said, the protection of human rights, socio-economic development and social security expansion remain challenges to Vietnam .
The two-day workshop was organised with the aim of providing knowledge and experience for Vietnamese experts in preparation for the submission of the country’s report next year.
Under the terms of the mechanism, the UN’s Human Rights Council reviews the human rights conditions of all 192 UN members every four years as a reminder to the countries of their obligations to the protection and implementation of basic freedoms and human rights.
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