Enhancing the effectiveness of the role of the press in communicating about human rights

On the morning of July 1, in Da Nang, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in coordination with the Press Department ( Ministry of Information and Communications ) opened a training conference on human rights for reporters and editors of press agencies and news agencies in the central region.

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Loi delivered the opening speech.

In order to implement Directive No. 34/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister on strengthening the implementation of the Project on integrating human rights into the education program in the national education system, the training course was organized with the aim of updating knowledge and information on human rights and human rights education, thereby improving the capacity of reporters and editors in performing their important political tasks. Participating in the training course on human rights were lecturers and experts from the Institute of Human Rights (Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics) and the Ministry of Information and Communications, along with more than 30 reporters and editors from central and local press agencies in the central region.

Training class scene.

Speaking at the training session, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Loi, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Head of the Human RightsEducation Project Executive Board, said that human rights education plays a particularly important role in raising social awareness, preventing and limiting rights violations; providing knowledge and equipping skills to help each person correctly perceive the meaning and value of rights, thereby knowing how to protect their own rights, comply with the law and respect the dignity, rights and freedoms of others. Media and press institutions play a very important role in protecting, ensuring and promoting human rights through methods such as: communicating and orienting public opinion on human rights; being a forum for people's freedom of speech; providing and ensuring access to information; detecting and condemning acts of human rights violations; setting examples of typical examples in the fight to protect human rights; fight against erroneous and hostile views in the field of human rights;… Therefore, reporters and editors of press agencies and news agencies must have a firm grasp of theoretical, legal and practical issues on human rights in order to perform their duties well.

Experts and students attend the training course.

Taking place over two and a half days, the training course provided reporters and editors with knowledge such as: human rights; international law and Vietnamese law on human rights and press freedom; journalism skills and techniques to promote, protect human rights and prevent human rights violations in Vietnam;...

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