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 the afternoon of December 17, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a summary and awarding ceremony for the Online Competition on preventing and controlling the Family Violence in 2024.
Implementing the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress to reach a health insurance coverage rate of 95% or more of the population, the Women's Union at all provincial levels has deployed the creative models and methods and effectively replicated them. These activities not only contribute to completing the social security goals, but they also spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing in the community.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
