Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Training Conference 2024

On May 29, the Standing Office on Human Rights coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee to organize a training conference on human rights work in 2024.

Colonel Le Quang Dao, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee, spoke at the Conference. (Source: Congan.com.vn)

Speaking at the Conference, Colonel Le Quang Dao, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee, affirmed that in recent times, the work of ensuring and fighting for human rights in the city has been implemented synchronously and effectively.

Policies and guidelines for socio-economic development, improving the material and spiritual life of the people, especially in the fields of social security, hunger eradication, poverty reduction, legal aid, ensuring freedom of belief and religion, and resolving complaints and denunciations of the people, etc., have been increasingly improved, ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of citizens. The fight against activities that take advantage of democracy and human rights to violate national security has achieved many positive and remarkable results.

In addition, human rights work in the area still has certain limitations such as the work of disseminating achievements has not been promoted and systematically implemented; awareness of human rights work of a number of cadres is not deep and unified, the implementation of information reporting regime of some departments, branches and sectors that are members of the Steering Committee is sometimes not timely, not fully reflecting information and situations, leading to difficulties in synthesizing, advising, proposing to leaders at all levels to issue and implement solutions contributing to improving the results of human rights work in the City.

In addition, according to Colonel Le Quang Dao, the coordination and exchange of relevant information between agencies, departments, and organizations are sometimes not timely and consistent; management work still has some shortcomings; consulting and propaganda work on ensuring human rights is not regular; the work of combating and refuting wrong viewpoints has not met the requirements of the task.

Based on the above reality, organizing a training conference on human rights work is necessary to thoroughly educate cadres and key leaders of units on the meaning, importance and responsibility in ensuring human rights; mobilizing 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 the city.

Major General Nguyen Van Ky, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office of the Government Human Rights Steering Committee, raised new and key issues that need attention related to the work of ensuring human rights. (Source: Government Human Rights Steering Committee)

At the conference, Major General Nguyen Van Ky, Deputy Chief of the Office of the Government Human Rights Steering Committee, affirmed that the conference took place right after Vietnam successfully defended the Dialogue Session on Vietnam's National Report under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle IV in Geneva, Switzerland, and that Vietnam's efforts and achievements have been recognized and highly appreciated by the international community.

On that basis, Major General Nguyen Van Ky suggested that in the coming time, the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee needs to make more breakthroughs, proactively advise authorities at all levels to implement policies and laws on ensuring and promoting human rights. At the same time, the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee needs to continue to promote information and propaganda work on the policies and laws of the Party and State on achievements in ensuring human rights at the grassroots level, and strengthen external information on Vietnam's positive role, especially during the period when Vietnam announced its re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2026-2028 term.... The Deputy Chief of the Steering Committee's Office emphasized that it is necessary to proactively do a good job of grasping the situation, raising vigilance, and detecting plots and activities of hostile forces taking advantage of democracy and human rights issues at the grassroots level to conduct sabotage activities.

The human rights training conference thoroughly grasped new and key issues related to human rights protection work so that cadres and party members could grasp and effectively apply them in their work practices.

Delegates listened to the reporters present two topics: "Human rights work in the new situation" and "Ensuring workers' rights in the context of business and trade liberalization".

The topics were positively evaluated by delegates because they provided practical information and knowledge on the field of human rights protection, especially in the current period, when Vietnam's participation in new generation trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) or the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has set new requirements and regulations directly related to workers' rights in the process of international integration, especially the establishment of workers' organizations in enterprises other than trade unions.

At the Conference, delegates hoped to continue to have more training sessions through topics on ensuring human rights in the new situation for local and grassroots officials.

Overview of the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Training Conference 2024. (Source: congan.com.vn)

In his closing speech at the Conference, the Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Human Rights Steering Committee affirmed that the Human Rights Training Conference had promptly provided the latest information on democracy and human rights issues; fostered knowledge for staff directly working on human rights. At the same time, the Conference created a forum to share and exchange practical experiences, and resolve difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of the work, contributing practically to bringing the work of ensuring, protecting and fighting for human rights from the central to local levels.

On behalf of the City's Human Rights Steering Committee, Colonel Le Quang Dao requested that the Steering Committee's member units coordinate closely to advise the City Party Committee and the City People's Committee to best organize and implement the work of ensuring and protecting human rights.

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