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.
More than just an information technology teacher, Bui Van Nien is an inspiring figure who has nurtured the scientific curiosity and creative spirit of students in Vietnam’s ethnic minority communities.
Da Bac is the most disadvantaged mountainous district in Hoa Binh province, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 90% of its population. Over the past years, the district has mobilised resources to implement ethnic policies to improve the quality of life of local people.
In recent years, Hoa Binh province has consistently prioritised the protection, care, and education of children, particularly those from ethnic minorities and disadvantaged backgrounds, by creating a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment for their all-round development.
The Steering Committee for Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control of Hoa Binh province, in coordination with the Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control Fund, held a ceremony on May 28 in response to the World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and the National No Tobacco Week (from May 25 to 31). The event was chaired by Nguyen Van Toan, Standing Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee.
Since 2021, the Center for Industrial Promotion and Industrial Development Consulting (CIIDC) under the Department of Industry and Trade has been implementing a school lighting model as part of the plan for using energy efficiently and economically in Hoa Binh Province in the pẻiod of 2021 - 2025. This model not only aims to improve the learning conditions and enhance the education quality, but it also promotes the message of energy saving, energy security, environmental protection and contributes to the goals of socio-economic development.
In the 2024 - 2025 school year, the entire Hoa Binh provincial education sector includes 520 educational institutions and schools. Among them are 13 ethnic boarding schools with 153 classes and 4,487 students. Four of these schools have met national standards, reaching 30.7 percent.
