Vietnam takes part in NAM efforts for women advancement
He said gender quality was incorporated in the national plan for economic and social development for the period 2006-2010 and a plan of action for the advancement of Vietnamese women for the period 2006-2010 was formulated. The Union of Women has announced six separate major programmes of action aimed at renewing the Union’s activities in order to protect better the interests of women in line with the overall objective of the Union, that of achieving gender equality, development and peace.
The transfer in 2008 of the function of managing the work relating to gender equality issues to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs with permanent staff and with a woman Minister, the steps to strengthen the National Committee for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women and the formation of the Group of Women Deputies in the National Assembly were aimed at ensuring efficiency of women-related work nationwide.
Minh announced that those specific measures have brought about specific results. Women account for 25.7 percent of the membership of the incumbent National Assembly. A third woman was elected Vice-President of the country and as has always been over the past decades, the new Government consists of women ministers. Significant progress has been made in ensuring equal access to education for women, at both national and local levels.
The Vietnamese diplomat noted that at half-way in implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while in every aspect, positive results have been recorded in many NAM member countries, the MDGs have been implemented unevenly and even in countries with encouraging results, not all of the 8 MDGs have met half-way commitments. “All these demand that our Movement further enhances our efforts to ensure that we are able to achieve the MDGs by the year 2015,” he said.
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