A nationwide writing contest, entitled ‘Say No to Domestic Violence’ has been launched in Hanoi in a move to raise the entire society’s awareness of a happy, progressive and equal life.

The Ministry of Health and the World Bank (WB) launched the 2010 Innovation Day for HIV/AIDS Prevention with the theme ‘Community Initiative: Preventing AIDS’ on August 11 in Hanoi.

New report and HIV-positive women’s groups make urgent recommendations for advancing leadership of women living with HIV

Under the framework of the project: “Enhancing Women and Children’s Rights” funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Huong Son District Women’s Union, (Ha Tinh province) in cooperation with Ha Tinh Provincial Women’s Union and the Women’s Unions in four communes: Son Giang, Son Ham, Son Trung and Son Linh organized four workshops on “Proposing measures to support children who are poor and living in difficult situations” from June 8th to 11th, 2010.

Recently, with the support of the Local Coordinating Board of the Program for Supporting Enterprise Sector, the Component 1, under the project of Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Khanh Hoa provincial Women’s Union organized the training on “Gender issues in the small and medium businesses” for 140 participants from the local and provincial departments, agencies, mass organizations, managers, WU cadres and enterprises in the province.

On 21st June, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of the Central Communist Party and President of Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), and Mrs. Hoang Thi Ai Nhien, Vice-President of VWU paid visits and congratulated Nhan Dan Newspaper, Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam Television, Voices of Vietnam, Vietnam Journalists Association, Communist Review, and Hanoi Women Newspaper on the 85th Anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary Journalism Day.

On 10th June 2010, The Central Vietnam Women’s Union held a meeting for the female members of the XII National Assembly at the Center for Women and Development, 20 Thuy Khue Street, Ha Noi.

Recently, a delegation from the TYM Fund attended the workshop on combining health protection with microfinance activities which was organized in the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD), in the Philippines. There were 20 participants of 9 microfinance organizations from Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.

On the morning of 22nd of April 2010, with the support of the Presidium of the Central Vietnam Women’s Union, Da Nang Women’s Union conducted a training course to improve local women cadres’ capacity in organizing communicative activities on community-based criminal preventions.

On the morning of April 5th, 2010, the Women’s Academy of Vietnam Women’s Union opened the refresher training course named “Professional Training on Women’s Works for VWU’s Full Time Staffs at Provincial/Municipal and District Levels in Northern Provinces.”