A workshop was held in Hanoi on November 27 to seek to perfect a legalsystem to protect the environment as well as legitimate rights andinterests of the community.
Co-organised by the the People andNature Reconciliation (PanNature) and the Justice InitiativeFacilitation Fund (JIFF), the event brought together more than 100delegates from State management agencies, the central justice agency,research institutions and non-governmental organisations.
PanNatureDirector Trinh Le Nguyen pointed out that the lack of coordinationbetween relevant agencies has failed the mechanisms handling complaintsand denunciations related to the environment to protect the right ofpeople concerned. The delegates proposed establishing a courtspecialising in solving environment-related cases and using civilianexpertises to determine the damage caused by environmental pollution.
Afternearly the three decades of renewal, Vietnam reaped remarkable economicgrowth and poverty reduction. However, a series of environmentalproblems were emerged.
According to statistics of the CentralCancer Hospital (K hospital), over five recent years, 150,000 cancerpatients were recorded in the country a year, of whom about 70,000 died.
Although environmental pollution is considered one of thereasons causing diseases and death for human, mechanisms used bysufferers to lodge related complaints remain unclear, resulting inunfeasible application in reality.
A report on Justice Indexmade by the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam in 2012said, nearly 31 percent of the number of respondents says that they areliving in polluted areas and only 12 percent of them sent theircomplaints to authorities to ask for the redress.-VNA
Co-organised by the the People andNature Reconciliation (PanNature) and the Justice InitiativeFacilitation Fund (JIFF), the event brought together more than 100delegates from State management agencies, the central justice agency,research institutions and non-governmental organisations.
PanNatureDirector Trinh Le Nguyen pointed out that the lack of coordinationbetween relevant agencies has failed the mechanisms handling complaintsand denunciations related to the environment to protect the right ofpeople concerned. The delegates proposed establishing a courtspecialising in solving environment-related cases and using civilianexpertises to determine the damage caused by environmental pollution.
Afternearly the three decades of renewal, Vietnam reaped remarkable economicgrowth and poverty reduction. However, a series of environmentalproblems were emerged.
According to statistics of the CentralCancer Hospital (K hospital), over five recent years, 150,000 cancerpatients were recorded in the country a year, of whom about 70,000 died.
Although environmental pollution is considered one of thereasons causing diseases and death for human, mechanisms used bysufferers to lodge related complaints remain unclear, resulting inunfeasible application in reality.
A report on Justice Indexmade by the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam in 2012said, nearly 31 percent of the number of respondents says that they areliving in polluted areas and only 12 percent of them sent theircomplaints to authorities to ask for the redress.-VNA
