Innovative thinking, creative research of many new ways of working to ensure human rights

On October 31, the Government's Standing Office on Human Rights coordinated with the Gia Lai Provincial Human Rights Steering Committee to organize a training conference on human rights work in 2024.

Gia Lai: Đổi mới tư duy, nghiên cứu sáng tạo nhiều cách làm mới trong công tác bảo đảm quyền con người

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Son, Deputy Director of the Provincial Police, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Gia Lai Provincial Human Rights Steering Committee. (Source: Organizing Committee)

Attending the conference were more than 200 delegates representing the Departments, branches, members of the Gia Lai Provincial Human Rights Steering Committee and delegates from the provincial police force.

Speaking at the opening of the Conference, Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Son, Deputy Director of the Provincial Police Department, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Human Rights Steering Committee, said that although the world and regional situation in the past year continued to develop complicatedly, affected by fierce and direct competition between major countries, deeply affecting the political and security situation as well as the guarantee of human rights, Gia Lai province has achieved many achievements in ensuring and promoting human rights.

Religious and ethnic security continues to be maintained stably, product growth rate in the first 9 months of 2024 is estimated at 3.76% (ranked 4th/5 provinces in the Central Highlands region).

The consumer price index (CPI) increased by 3.4% compared to the first 9 months of 2023. Gia Lai province has increasingly effectively implemented the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas. Up to now, the whole province has 128 villages and hamlets in ethnic minority areas meeting the new rural standards according to the national target program.

In addition, the province always implements well social security and welfare policies, especially preferential policies for people with meritorious services, taking care of the lives of the elderly, people with disabilities, children, especially children in difficult circumstances; focusing on promoting poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas.

However, the province's economic development is not yet stable and sustainable, the scale of GRDP and the human development index (HDI) are still low, and the infrastructure of health, education and culture has not been invested in proportion. Meanwhile, hostile forces always take advantage of ethnic, religious, democratic and human rights issues in the province to propagate, distort, slander and distort the situation of ensuring and promoting human rights in our country in international forums. In this situation, it poses significant challenges for Gia Lai province in the work of ensuring and promoting human rights.

Colonel Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Head of Human Rights Section, Government Permanent Office for Human Rights. (Source: Organizing Committee)

At the conference, Colonel Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Head of the Human Rights Section, Government Standing Office on Human Rights, affirmed that human rights is a common task of the entire political system, closely linked to the grassroots level, so it requires the joint efforts and coordination of departments, branches and sectors in protecting and ensuring human rights.

In the coming time, during the mid-term of the 2023-2025 term as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Vietnam will continue to participate more deeply in promoting dialogue and cooperation on human rights, promoting commitments to re-run for membership of the UNHRC for the 2026-2028 term. Hostile forces will increase propaganda distorting Vietnam's repression of human rights, especially in issues of ethnicity, religion, and worker security, especially at international forums, in order to discredit Vietnam's reputation and image, and sabotage efforts to affirm our position in the international arena.

Therefore, human rights work must closely combine "building" and "fighting", maintaining internal stability, developing the socio-economy, ensuring human rights in all political, economic, social and cultural fields to create a solid foundation for the fight against the slanderous and distorted arguments of hostile forces.

Delegates attending the Gia Lai Province Human Rights Training Conference. (Source: Organizing Committee)

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 to their work. Delegates listened to the reporters present 3 topics including: Human rights work in the new situation; Strange religions and new religious phenomena; Solutions to strengthen the fight against erroneous and hostile arguments on human rights issues in cyberspace.

The topics were highly appreciated by delegates for providing practical information and knowledge on human rights protection, thereby helping officials in charge of management, consulting and enforcement of human rights protection to better perform their duties and professional work.

In his closing speech at the Conference, Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Son, Deputy Director of the Provincial Police Department, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Human Rights Steering Committee, affirmed that with the goal of renewing thinking and creating strong changes in actions to make the work of ensuring and fighting for human rights in Gia Lai province more practical and effective, the conference is a valuable opportunity for the staff working on ensuring human rights to improve their knowledge as well as equip themselves with necessary skills in the process of performing their tasks.

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Son suggested that in the coming time, it is necessary to focus on implementing the following tasks: Continue to proactively and effectively advise on the development and implementation of policies and laws on ensuring and promoting human rights to improve the material life of the people, especially in ethnic minority areas, focusing on the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas; Always pay attention to ensuring freedom of belief and religion, creatively researching many new ways, replicating good practices in ensuring human rights; Further promote the propaganda work to ensure human rights; Proactively further enhance the role and responsibility of departments, branches and sectors in ensuring and fighting for human rights in the province.

The conference creates a forum to share and exchange practical work experiences, address difficulties and obstacles in implementing human rights work, and strengthen coordination between central and local authorities in ensuring, protecting and fighting for human rights.