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Vietnam ensures highest implementation of human rights

Vietnam has considered the promotion and protection of human rights an important factor to the country’s sustainable development, industrialisation and modernisation.

Through the building of its legal system and the implementation of concrete measures, the country has fulfilled its commitments to international frameworks and institutions in its capacity as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Vietnam has considered the promotion and protection of human rightsan important factor to the country’s sustainable development,industrialisation and modernisation.

Through the buildingof its legal system and the implementation of concrete measures, thecountry has fulfilled its commitments to international frameworks andinstitutions in its capacity as a member of the United Nations HumanRights Council.

Since the birth of the State of Vietnam,human rights have featured in the Constitution, important political andlegal documents and the State’s basic laws.

The broadeningstipulation on human rights in the 1946, 1959 and 1992 Constitutions isseen as the highest institutionalisation and guarantee of the State inpromoting the implementation of human rights.

TheConstitution amended in 2013 was adopted at the sixth session of the 13th National Assembly last November in a bid to ensure the synchronouseconomic and political renovation.

The Constitution reflectsVietnam ’s more profound viewpoints on the protection and respect ofhuman rights, and ensuring better implementation of citizens’fundamental rights and obligations.

It devotes the wholeChapter II stipulating human rights and citizens’ rights andobligations. Human rights have also been stated in many articles of therevised Constitution.

The legal document also stipulates newrights as a result of the nearly three-decade renewal process in linewith international treaties on human rights of which Vietnam is amember.

According to National Assembly Vice Chairman UongChu Luu, human rights and citizens’ fundamental rights and obligationsare stipulated in Chapter II in the revised Constitution instead ofChapter V in the original version. This reflects the greater importanceattached to these issues.

In addition, the titleof the chapter has also been changed to human rights and citizens’fundamental rights and obligations, while in the older version the titleonly dealt with citizens’ fundamental rights and obligations.

The changes in the revised Constitution manifests Vietnam’scommitment to ensuring, protecting and respecting human rights andcitizens’ rights.

Moreover, human rights stated in theConstitution have been ceaselessly concretised in Vietnam ’s legaldocuments. Since 2009, the Vietnam National Assembly has issued andamended many important laws in order to create a full and firm legalfoundation for the respect and ensuring of human rights implementation.

The application of international treaties on human rights inwhich Vietnam is a member to national laws has reaped significantresults with people’s civil and political rights step by step improvedand exercised.
Also, economic, cultural and social rightshave been basically put into laws, thus ensuring better realisation ofhuman rights.

Vietnam’s Constitution and laws havefully included basic and popular human rights as stated in the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights in 1948 and other international conventionson human rights of the United Nations.

Acknowledging thecountry’s endeavours, UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pratibha Mehtasaid over the past years Vietnam has ceaselessly improved its legal andjudicial systems, built a law-governed State and enhanced nationalinstitutions on human rights protection.-VNA.
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