Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Ha Thi Nga has said Vietnamese women have contributed significantly to national renewal and development under the Party’s leadership and with support from the Government.
Vietnam targets 60 percent of women holding key positions in the state management agencies by 2025, and the figure is expected to rise to 75 percent by 2030 under a programme recently approved by the Prime Minister.
A total of 600 poor households of ethnic groups in four communes of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai which were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic received financial assistance to buy food and improve their livelihoods on December 4.
The first-ever symphony concert to promote gender equality in Vietnam will premiere at the Hanoi Opera House on November 27, the organisers have announced.
Vietnam has been among the leading countries in Asia-Pacific in recording marked progress in gender quality and women’s empowerment over recent decades.
Gender biases and stereotypes often challenge ethnic minority women in remote areas. Many of them, however, have proved that women can do anything when they are empowered.
The 2020 national action month for gender equality and the prevention and control of violence against women and girls was launched in the northern city of Hai Phong on November 6.
Romenio Pereira, Secretary for International Relations of the Workers’ Party (PT) of Brazil, paid a courtesy call on Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Thi Kim Hoa at the embassy in Brasilia on November 4.
Younger men in urban areas tend to be more open to negotiating the sharing of housework, to their spouses working outside the home and to making shared large purchase decisions with their partners, a new report on men’s views on gender equality and social expectations shows.
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has represented Vietnam to sign the new US-led Call to Action on Women’s Economic Empowerment, together with other 31 UN member states.
Leaders of some top businesses in Vietnam on October 22 signed the commitment to supporting the women’s empowerment principles (WEPs), an initiative of the UN Women and the UN Global Compact.
A campaign called “Career has no gender” has been launched to promote gender equality in workplaces nationwide, Le Thanh Hang, Director of the Vietnam Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE), said on October 20.
Some 70 experts on gender equality and delegates from ethnic committees of 15 provinces and cities across the country attended a workshop on October 15 to review the first five years of a project on reducing child marriage and inter-marriage in ethnic minority areas during 2015-2025.
Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on October 2 (Vietnam time) sent an important message to the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fourth World Conference on Women.
Students majoring in communications and journalism will be trained in knowledge and skills to become change makers of gender stereotypes in the community, as heard at a workshop held in Hanoi on September 25 to kick off a project titled “Youth address gender stereotypes and promote gender equality”.
As many as three million people living in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, equal to 17 percent of the total population of the three biggest cities in Vietnam, will benefit from a project which started on September 25 in Hanoi.
The Law on Gender Equality of Vietnam was built in conformity with international standards on human rights, including binding international treaties that the country has participated in and inter-Governmental agreements, heard a recent conference.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) co-hosted an event on September 24 to release the independent Review of Ten Years of Implementing the Law on Gender Equality.
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