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Workshop fosters promotion of VN’s achievements in human rights

A training workshop took place in Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on December 21 to help reporters from central and local news agencies in 33 southern cities and provinces improve the effectiveness of dissemination of Vietnam’s achievements in human rights.
Workshop fosters promotion of VN’s achievements in human rights ảnh 1Workshop fosters promotion of VN’s achievements in human rights. (Photo: SGGP)

Lam Dong (VNA) – A training workshop took place in Da Lat city, the Central Highlandsprovince of Lam Dong on December 21 to help reporters from central and localnews agencies in 33 southern cities and provinces improve the effectiveness of disseminationof Vietnam’s achievements in human rights.

The event wasco-held by the Government’s Steering Committee for Human Rights and theSteering Committee for External Information Service.

Representatives fromthe Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Ministry of Foreign Affairs andthe Steering Committee for Human Rights and other governmental agencies briefedparticipants on the Party’s policies and State laws on human right issues andthe country’s progress in ensuring human rights in civil affairs, politics,economics and culture. They also talked about human rights in external affairsand Vietnam’s international commitments to human rights.

Vietnam has workedto ensure human rights through achieving goals in poverty reduction,healthcare, care for welfare beneficiaries and more while ethnic, democraticand religious rights have been integrated into many state policies, said PhamVan Linh, vice chief of the Communication and Education Commission and theSteering Committee for External Information Service.

He expected that thenews agencies will enhance the promotion of Vietnam’s achievements in ensuringhuman rights among local public and international communities through differentforms of information.

Attendees laterexchanged experience in approaches of human rights in their works and proposedways to improve the effectiveness of promotion of Vietnam’s achievements inhuman rights.-VNA
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