Vietnam striving to teach human rights at all-level educational institutes by 2025

Knowledge about human rights will be put into the curriculum of all the educational institutes by 2025, heard a press briefing by the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Department of External Affairs and Human Rights on November 17.
Vietnam striving to teach human rights at all-level educational institutes by 2025 ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Knowledge about human rights will be put into thecurriculum of all the educational institutes by 2025, heard a press briefing bythe Ministry of Information and Communications’ Department of External Affairsand Human Rights on November 17.

Accordingly, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA)is developing four sets of documents guiding teachers to integrate the contentsinto all-level school curricula.

Assoc. Prof., Dr. Tuong Duy Kien, Director of the HCMA’sInstitute of Human Rights, said that many schools have included the human rights contents in experiential and extracurricular activities since 2022.

He proposed the entire political system join hands to create changes inawareness and actions of authorities at all levels and sectors to meet the needsof and aspirations for human rights education in Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications NguyenThanh Lam said that the world is facing three wars at the same time: militarywar, economic war, and information war in cyberspace.

He emphasised the important role of the press, media andeducation in raising people's awareness in dealing with the information war./.
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