Gender equality should be included in the National Target Programme on New Rural Development as well as new-style rural area building criteria, by mainstreaming gender issues during the implementation of the programme in the years to come, a workshop in Hanoi on June 11 heard.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with NA female deputies in Hanoi on June 10.

From 2021, an official roadmap to adjust the retirement age shall be applied according to the Clause 5, Article 169 of the Labor Code. In order to provide its social feedback, on the morning of May 14, 2020, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) organized a workshop to consult professional experts and managers on the draft Decree on retirement age and pension entitlements.

From the beginning of the year, due to the COVID-19 epidemic and unstable weather, the diseases on cattle and poultry have affected production and daily life, making it difficult for many members and women.

A shelter was built in 2014 in Quang Tri province to support women and children survivors of domestic violence. Over the past few years, the shelter has assisted many unfortunate women, helping to reduce domestic violence and bring happiness to many families.

Responding to the call of the Ministry of Health and UNICEF Vietnam in the “Kindness is Contagious” campaign, Vietnam Women’s Publishing House with TYM MFI has launched a fundraising campaign to support women severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic – including TYM members. The fund is raised by selling the book “I’M HOME,” a diary of isolation during Covid-19 pandemic.

Female scientists who have successfully isolated the new strain of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, making Vietnam one of the first four countries to successfully isolate this virus, have received the Kovalevskaya Award 2019.

One hundred percent of the Executive Committee members voted Ms. Ha Thi Nga, former Permanent Deputy Secretary of Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee, to be VWU President for the 2017-2022 term.

After many practical actions in COVID-19 disease prevention recently, TYM has continued to implement the support package “TYM – empowering members” to accompany and share with members to overcomes this difficult time:

All level Women’s Unions have been carrying out very specific and meaningful activities every day in order to join hands with the whole country in combating the epidemic.