Topics: Human rights

IOM ready to help Vietnam eliminate trafficking in persons: Official Society

IOM ready to help Vietnam eliminate trafficking in persons: Official

The International Organisation for Mirgration (IOM) is ready to help the Vietnamese Government accelerate the goal of eliminating the trafficking in persons in Vietnam, IOM Chief of Mission Park Mihyung has said. Following is the full text of her interview to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and the National Day Against Human Trafficking (July 30).
Peaceful atmosphere at Phat Quang Pagoda Culture - Sports

Peaceful atmosphere at Phat Quang Pagoda

Located in Thanh Phong commune, Thanh Liem district, Ha Nam province, some 70km south of Hanoi, Phat Quang is a small pagoda more than a hundred years old. It has become a place of practice, preaching and pilgrimage for domestic and foreign tourists in recent years after being rebuilt with unique architecture.
Joint efforts called for to support victims of human trafficking Society

Joint efforts called for to support victims of human trafficking

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), the Ministry of Public Security, and Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee on July 28 held a ceremony to launch a campaign observing Vietnam's Day Against Human Trafficking and World Day Against Trafficking in Person on July 30 with the theme “Reach every victim of trafficking, leave no one behind".
Tay ethnic minority man promoting folk music Culture - Sports

Tay ethnic minority man promoting folk music

Passionate about singing and with a great love of national culture, one young man aspires to share his love and preserve the most beautiful things about national music. That is the story behind young Tay ethnic minority man Nguyen Minh Nghia and his musical project “Dat hat” (The Land of Singing).
Ambassadors, IOM representative in Vietnam deliver message on human trafficking prevention, control Society

Ambassadors, IOM representative in Vietnam deliver message on human trafficking prevention, control

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with the Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US to Vietnam, has produced a video to dispel misconceptions about human trafficking and to raise public awareness of this issue, as well as to call for more actions to protect the victims of the evil, on the occasion of the World Day Against Trafficking in Person (WDATIP) that falls on July 30.
Overseas Vietnamese youth pay respect to President Ho Chi Minh Society

Overseas Vietnamese youth pay respect to President Ho Chi Minh

A total of 120 young overseas Vietnamese (OVs) from across 17 countries and territories worldwide paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at the Kim Lien special national relic site in the late leader’s hometown in the central province of Nghe An’s Nam Dan district on July 25, as part of their Vietnam Summer Camp 2023.
Bac Ha reclaiming mantle as unique tourism area Videos

Bac Ha reclaiming mantle as unique tourism area

With unique cultural characteristics and a host of historical and cultural relic sites, Bac Ha district has carved out a name as an attractive tourism destination in the northwestern mountainous province of Lao Cai. After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, tourism on the “white plateau” has witnessed a strong recovery and the district has again become a unique tourism area.
Vietnam leaving no one behind Society

Vietnam leaving no one behind

Despite facing numerous difficulties, the Party, State, and Government of Vietnam have exerted every effort to fulfil the commitment of “No one is left behind” and build a peaceful, prosperous, and happy country.
UNHRC adopts resolution co-proposed by Vietnam Society

UNHRC adopts resolution co-proposed by Vietnam

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted 30 resolutions at the end of its 53rd regular session in Geneva on July 14, including one on climate change and human rights drafted and proposed by Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the Philippines that highlights the adverse impact of the natural phenomenon on livelihoods and human rights, emphasising the need for international cooperation to address these impacts.