National Assembly deputies pressed buttons to vote on the Law on Access to Information in 2016 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Justice and the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) co-held a seminar in Hanoi on December 24 to introduce leaflets on theLaw on Access to Information.
In her opening speech, Nguyen Thi Hanh, deputy head of the ministry’s Departmentof Criminal and Administrative Legislation, said the ministry defines communicationas an important task to put the provisions of the law into life and help raiseState agencies’ awareness of the responsibility for providing information on areasof their charge.
The ministry has coordinated with relevant ministries, agencies and localitiesin organising conferences, seminars and training courses on the law as well as compilingand issuing question-and-answer documents on this content, she said.
However, Hanh noted that popularisation measures need to be diversified,including leaflets, in order to help people, especially those from ethnic minoritygroups and mountainous, remote and island areas, better their understanding ofthe right to information access.
Catherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right toinformation access is one of the important criteria for Vietnam to achieve sustainabledevelopment goals. One of the measuresto ensure the right is the effective implementation of the Law on Access toInformation, which took effect on July 1, 2018.
This is an important document detailing the people’s right to informationaccess and State agencies’ information provision responsibility, she noted.
She emphasised the need to distribute leaflets to help people better understandthe provisions of the law.
At the seminar, a representative from the Department of Criminal andAdministrative Legislation introduced two kinds of leaflets, with each featuringthose entitled to information access, information that may be accessed, rightsand obligations of citizens in accessing information, and procedures for requestinginformation provision, among others.
Accordingly, citizens are free to access information publicized by Stateagencies or ask State agencies to provide information. State agencies publiciseinformation by posing on their websites or mass media, receiving citizens, and organisingpress conferences and issuing press releases.
For those living in border, island and mountainous areas can perform theirright to information access via broadcasting and television systems, specialiseddocuments, leaflets and publications, and community activities.
Meanwhile, State agencies will have their portals and websites equipped withbasic functions to support disabled persons in accessing information.-VNA
In her opening speech, Nguyen Thi Hanh, deputy head of the ministry’s Departmentof Criminal and Administrative Legislation, said the ministry defines communicationas an important task to put the provisions of the law into life and help raiseState agencies’ awareness of the responsibility for providing information on areasof their charge.
The ministry has coordinated with relevant ministries, agencies and localitiesin organising conferences, seminars and training courses on the law as well as compilingand issuing question-and-answer documents on this content, she said.
However, Hanh noted that popularisation measures need to be diversified,including leaflets, in order to help people, especially those from ethnic minoritygroups and mountainous, remote and island areas, better their understanding ofthe right to information access.
Catherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right toinformation access is one of the important criteria for Vietnam to achieve sustainabledevelopment goals. One of the measuresto ensure the right is the effective implementation of the Law on Access toInformation, which took effect on July 1, 2018.
This is an important document detailing the people’s right to informationaccess and State agencies’ information provision responsibility, she noted.
She emphasised the need to distribute leaflets to help people better understandthe provisions of the law.
At the seminar, a representative from the Department of Criminal andAdministrative Legislation introduced two kinds of leaflets, with each featuringthose entitled to information access, information that may be accessed, rightsand obligations of citizens in accessing information, and procedures for requestinginformation provision, among others.
Accordingly, citizens are free to access information publicized by Stateagencies or ask State agencies to provide information. State agencies publiciseinformation by posing on their websites or mass media, receiving citizens, and organisingpress conferences and issuing press releases.
For those living in border, island and mountainous areas can perform theirright to information access via broadcasting and television systems, specialiseddocuments, leaflets and publications, and community activities.
Meanwhile, State agencies will have their portals and websites equipped withbasic functions to support disabled persons in accessing information.-VNA
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