Join hands to ensure human rights

Speaking at the Conference, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial Steering Committee on Human Rights Nguyen Van Toan said that in recent times, in Hoa Binh province, the socio -economic situation has continued to develop, social security work has achieved many positive results; the material and spiritual life of the people has been gradually improved, especially in remote areas and ethnic minority areas; freedom of belief and religion, as well as the rights of ethnic minorities have been guaranteed and cared for.

The poverty rate in the province decreased from 12.29% to 9.79% (a decrease of 2.5% in the period of 2022-2023); legal aid work was deployed with 1,505 cases; in 2023, the whole province had 17,162 workers with jobs, reaching 107.3% of the annual plan; medical examination, treatment and health care activities for people were maintained and implemented well. The number of people participating in social insurance (SI) by the end of 2023 was about 99,098 people, reaching 22.08% compared to the working-age labor force; the settlement of social insurance and health insurance (HI) policies for participants was timely and complete. The universalization of lower secondaryeducation reached 100%; the mobilization rate of preschool children reached 99%; The work of disease prevention and control has been actively implemented... In addition to the achieved results, the work of ensuring and promoting human rights in the province still faces many difficulties in practice. Meanwhile, hostile, reactionary and opposing forces are taking advantage of complex and sensitive issues in ethnicity, religion as well as complex issues of security and order to distort and accuse us of violating "democracy" and "human rights", especially in cyberspace.

Comrade Nguyen Van Toan, Permanent Vice Chairman of Hoa Binh Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial Steering Committee on Human Rights spoke at the Conference.

At the conference, Major General Nguyen Van Ky, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Chief of the Government's Standing Office on Human Rights affirmed that human rights are the common work of the entire political system, closely linked to the grassroots level. At the same time, it is necessary to have the cooperation and coordination of departments, branches and sectors in protecting and ensuring human rights. Therefore, it is recommended that the Standing Office of the Provincial Steering Committee on Human Rights in the coming time should be proactive in advising authorities at all levels to implement policies and laws on ensuring and promoting human rights; continue to promote internal and external communication work, spread positive information about achievements in ensuring human rights, especially strengthening information and propaganda work on social networking platforms; proactively do a good job of grasping the situation, raising vigilance, detecting plots and activities of hostile forces taking advantage of democracy and human rights issues. The human rights training conference thoroughly grasped new issues related to the work of ensuring human rights so that cadres and party members could grasp and effectively apply them in practice. At the conference, Dr. Le Thi Lien, Director of the Institute for Religious Policy Research, Government Committee for Religious Affairs, presented the topic "Ensuring freedom of belief and religion" , thereby contributing to orienting and improving knowledge for grassroots cadres in implementing the law on belief and religion, contributing to ensuring freedom of belief and religion for the people.

Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Bui Viet Hung, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee on Human Rights of Hoa Binh province, spoke at the Conference.

In his closing speech at the Conference, Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Bui Viet Hung, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee on Human Rights of Hoa Binh province affirmed that currently, the issues of ethnicity, religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the issue of ensuring workers' rights, the issue of establishing "independent trade unions"... are the main directions of impact of hostile and reactionary forces to distort and sabotage Vietnam. Therefore, training on human rights work is very necessary, in order to thoroughly educate cadres and key leaders of units to correctly perceive the meaning, importance and responsibility in ensuring human rights; mobilize the combined strength of departments, branches, sectors and localities in the process of advising Party committees and authorities at all levels to propose policies and strategies to promote and ensure human rights in Hoa Binh province.

"Currently, the issues of ethnicity, religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the issue of ensuring workers' rights, the issue of establishing "independent trade unions"... are the main directions of impact that hostile and reactionary forces take advantage of to distort and sabotage Vietnam." Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Bui Viet Hung, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee on Human Rights of Hoa Binh Province

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