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Vietnam elected to UN Women’s Executive Board for 2025-2027

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on April 9 (US time) elected Vietnam to the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender...

Enhancing relations between Vietnamese and Finnish women

On March 25, 2024, Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) Tran Lan Phuong had a meeting with Ms. Inka Hopsu, member of the Finnish Parliament and...

Vietnam Women's Union extends condolences to Russian partners

On March 25, 2024, President of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU), Ha Thi Nga, on behalf of the Vietnam Women's Union, sent letters of condolences to its...

Capacity building and business development support for women-owned enterprises

In the morning of March 25, 2024, the Center for Women and Development (CWD) launched the project “Accelerate My Business: Capacity building and support for...

A billionaire’s dream: Bridging Vietnam with the World

The female billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao has shown that with talent, hard work and a bold heart to dream and make the dreams come true, any women can...

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  • Vietnamese AO victims assured with strong support to seek for justice

    The International Tribunal of Conscience in support of the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange ended in Paris, France on May 16, after two days of hearing. The final verdict will be issued on May 18, however the Vietnamese victims have received...

  • US backs laboratory

    The Atlantic Philanthropies Fund has committed nearly US$ 5.4 million in aid to help Vietnam build a dioxin laboratory following an agreement signed with the General Department of Environment under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment...

  • VN adheres to human rights, says diplomat

    The Vietnamese people were both the ultimate objective and driving force of any socio-economic development policy in the country, and protecting and promoting human rights was always the Government’s consistent policy, a senior diplomat has said.

  • Action on rights for older women

    Countries that have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) will in future be asked to consider older women when they report on progress.

  • Steps towards an older people’s convention

    Steps towards an international convention on the rights of older people have been taken with the announcement by Latin American states that they will develop a regional convention.

  • Vietnam, US discuss Agent Orange/dioxin issues

    A conference of the Vietnamese and US Pressure Group on Agent Orange/dioxin was held in Da Nang city on April 21 to review new progress in dealing with the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin used by the US army during the war in Vietnam.

  • Raising female retirement

    Chairperson of the Viet Nam Women’s Union Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa spoke with Viet Nam News about the need to increase the retirement age for women from 55 to 60 to improve gender equality.

  • National programme helps trim down poverty

    After three years of implementing a national programme on socio-economic development in poor mountainous communes inhabited by ethnic minority people (Programme 135), the poverty rate in the targeted areas fell to 35 percent in 2008 from 47...

  • Vietnam Women’s Union study tour to CARD organization, Philippines

    Recently, a VWU delegation leaded by Mme. Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy, Vice-President of VWU and 10 members (including presidents of Women’s Union of 7 TYM Fund provinces and districts) paid a study visit to CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institution (MRI),...

  • Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, President of Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) received the delegation of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Committee for Labour & Social Affairs

    In the afternoon of April 3rd 2009, President of VWU, Madam Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa received a delegation of German Parliament’s Committee for Labour & Social Affairs which includes 8 Deputies of the Parliament on the occasion of its working visit in...
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