The Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), one of the biggest women’s non-governmental organisations in the world, was founded on 1st December 1945 from the struggles of the democratic women’s movement against fascism in the Second World War for a world of peace without arms race.

The Asean Confederation of Women’s Organisations (ACWO) is one of the largest regional non-governmental women’s organization. ACWO was established on 20 November 1981 in Jakarka (Indonesia) by the participation of the 5 founding organization members in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) founded in 1985 and based in Melbourne, Australia is one of the first Australian women’s non-governmental development organizations established partnership with the Vietnam Women’s Union.

The Marie Schlei Association, a non-governmental organisation, was founded in 1984 in memory of Madame Marie Schlei, former German minister for Development policy who first integrated women’s needs into development.

The Maastricht School of Management (MSM) of the Netherlands was founded in 1952.

United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) is an inter-governmental agency, serving for the survival and development of children around the world. UNICEF is the first United Nations Agency to resume its cooperation programme with Vietnamese Government since 1975.

Founded in 1969, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has provided its support for Vietnam since 1978.

As a non-governmental organization and a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Family Planning Australia (FPA) is working to promote the national and international objectives of family planning, enabling people to achieve reproductive and sexual health and well-being in sustainable environment.

Supporting women engaged in aquaculture has drawn increasing attention of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), particularly over the recent years. To bring about greater effects in this area, VWU has contantly been improving its activities, trying to mobilize and optimize resources, especially the cooperation and support from international organizations, including Dutch NGOs.

Women Leaders’ Network (WLN) was establish in 1996 with a goal to involve and enhance women’s participation in all areas -as an active partner- in promoting investment, trade and cooperation activities on the basis of gender equality, thus contributing to the sustainable growth and human resource development in the region.

Vietnam and Canada has officially established the diplomatic relationship since August 1973, opening the new chapter in developing the friendship and cooperation in many sectors between the two countries for the benefits of respective countries and contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in Asia- Pacific and the rest of the world.

In 1989, 20 years After demobilization from the Army, an American veteran, Mr. Steve Sherlock, returned to Vietnam. He and his wife came for a three week visit. At that time, America still imposed an economic embargo against Vietnam and very few Americans came to Vietnam.

ANESVAD Foundation is a non-profitable and non-governmental organization of Spain, established in 1968 to support the developing countries with health and social development projects.

With 100% hand-made Vietnamese traditional material and patterns, designer Le Thi Lan Huong has wrapped the Vietnammese soul inside traditional long dresses, linked to old images of Dong Ho traditional paintings.

To further promote foreign funding mobilization for main activities of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) in the context of decreasing aid sources and strong competition in the international aid market, the Central VWU, on 6 -7 January 2005, conducted a Training Workshop on "Formulation of External Funding Mobilization Strategy for the Vietnam Women's Union".

Ms Christa Randzio-PIath, president of Mane Schiel Association (Germany), was conferred the medal of VWU “For the cause of women's emancipation", by VWU Vice President Nguyen Phuong Minh on 5th August 2004.

The National Committee for Advancement of Women in Vietnam (NCFAW) recently made public a guide for integrating gender in policy-making and implementation.

At the invitation of the Global Summit on Women 2004’s organizers, Vietnam Vice President Truong My Hoa participated in the event in Seoul, Republic of Korea as an honorable chairwoman, from May 27th to 29th.

On 22nd April, 2004, VWU received a set of office equipment including computers, printers and speakers (valued at US$ 20,000) from All China Women's Federation through Embassy of China to Vietnam. Participating in the ceremony were Ambassador of China, representatives of the embassy, VWU vice president Truong Thi Khue and other staff.

On April 22nd 2004, on behalf of VWU leaders, vice president Nguyen Phuong Minh presented the medal "For the cause of women’s emancipation" to Mr. Christian Vanwert, representative of the "Nord-Sud Cooperation" (Belgium) to recognize his essential contribu­tion for Vietnamese women’s advancement.

After several years of meeting and photographing people who have been affected by Agent Orange in Vietnam, photo¬grapher Phillip Jones Griffiths has just published a book entitled "Agent Orange Collateral Damage in Vietnam” (Trolley Publishing House).

She gave birth to nine babies, of which five died at birth. the four surviving children are either disabled or brain¬less. many years after the end of the american war the consequences of her husband's exposure to agent orange, as a soldier fighting in the war, still haunts the life of her family. the pain seems to be unbearable but somehow she still lives and strives to raise the family

At the end of April 2004, Jaap Voeten, a lecturer-cum-advisor of maastricht school of management (MSM-Holland), a technical consultant to vwu project on "Training women about small and micro enterprises", was presented with the medal "for the cause of women's emancipation" by VWU Vice President Nguyen Phuong Minh for his great contribution to the advancement of women and women entrepreneurs in Vietnam. through his cooperation with VWU over the past ten years, his skills have developed along with the development of VWU.

VWU recently organized a solemn meeting to support Agent Orange (AO) victims in Vietnam filed a lawsuit against the US chemical companies. VWU president Ha Thi Khiet, the Vice-President of the Association of AO victims of Vietnam, Do Xuan Dien, and many other cadres of VWU’s central office were present at the meeting.

The 54 national groups in Vietnam have many extraordinary traditional costumes that are regarded as part of the precious, intangible cultural heritage of Vietnam.

The projecton “strengthening of the institutional capacity of the Vietnamese Women’s Union in managing credlt/savings in favor of the rural poor women” (shortly as Vietnamese - Belgian credit project) has been implemented its activities since 1997 and covered 207 communes in 17 provinces nationwide. with the fund from government of Belgium, 900 women’s unions’ cadres at levels have been joined training courses to improve their awareness and experiences on meeting requirements of the computerized management system and ensure rotation of the credit fund.

 

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on women’s issues have been very active during the ten years since the 4th World Conference on Women (the “Beijing Conference”) held in Beijing in 1995. They have worked to implement the Beijing Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace and to gather data and opinions on women’s emerging issues in order to pressure the United Nations as well as its member states to ensure responsive policies.

The United Nations’ Fund for Women’s Development (UNIFEM) was established in 1976 with the mission to provide direct support for projects promoting women’s participation in decision-making process of development programmes

Being an inter-governmental organization established in 1951, up to present, International Organization for Migration (IOM) has 101 state members and 31 state observers including Vietnam.

HelpAge International (HAI) is s global network, established since 1983 with the mission to work with and for disadvantaged elder people worldwide to achieve better livelihood.

"World In Harmony" (WIH) is an international voluntary charitable non-governmental organization based in Madrid, Spain, founded by H.E Princess Irene of Greek since 1986.

Global Exchange (GX) is a non-profitable organization in America, established in 1988 to promote the equality on environment, politics and society.

Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) belonging to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of the biggest development cooperation agencies of Swedish Government for the developing countries mainly in Africa, Latin America and Asia, including Vietnam.

At the early 70’s, in Princeton University, New Jersey State- one of the well-known Universities in America- a big demonstration by students took place on the way leading to the Institute of National Defense Study to protest against Vietnam War.

Kids First- which is an humanitarian and non-profitable organization in America was established in 1997 to provide assistance to disadvantaged groups in Quang Tri province, Vietnam.