Accounting for more than half of the 600,000 sightless people, blind women face many difficulties and challenges.

Hai Phong Women’s Union has set up a Law Advisory Center in charge of consulting families and couples in areas related to foreign marriage and divorce, introduction law on civil and criminal affairs,

Representatives from the governments of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Phnompenh, Cambodia on May 10-12 to update and review the Sub-regional Plan of Action over the past three years and the implementation of the fight against human trafficking in Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee approved the project "Assisting women & children being trafficked and sexual slavery" and it is funded by Agir pour Les Femmes en Situation Precaire (AFESIP) organization.

The Ministry of Industry has approved Decision 468/QD-BCN. This decision is about rewarding authors of works who obtained the “Award of Creative Scientific Women” on March, 2nd 2006, in industrial sector.

Mrs. Pham Thi Bich Hue is the Vice Principle of Kim Dong Primary School in Quang Khue commune, Dak Glong district, Dak Nong province. It is she who has devoted 1,000m2 of land to build a school for hundreds of Catholic and Protestant children in the locality

Luong Tai district has 4 catholic communes and the town has 994 women who are Women’s Union (WU) members, accounting for 54% of catholic women from 18 years and above. These figures makes Luong Tai district a good example on mobilizing catholic women to join WU.

The 26th of March 2006 was an unforgettable day for Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung – a student of the gifted-student class in physics – Course K9 – at the University of Natural Sciences (under Hanoi National University).

The competition “Golden Hands in Clothes Making”, organized by the Association for the Protection of the Disabled and Orphans and the Women’s Union in Thai Binh province received 48 entries from disabled individuals. The competition is a chance for the disabled people to prove their abilities.

Dong Nai creates many favorable conditions for women’s contribution in all areas

Following the activities of building and completing the draft Law on gender equality, with the assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), on April 15th 2006, the Central Vietnam Women’s Union joined efforts with the Hai Phong Women’s Union to organize a workshop making suggestions for the 7th draft Law on gender equality.

From 13-15 April in Quang Nam province, the Commission on Social Affairs of National Assembly organized a workshop entitled “Law on gender equality”.

The Gia Lam Women’s Health Care and Consultation Centre, located at the general hospital in the Gia Lam District, Ha Noi, has become a haven for women trying to escape violence in the home.

A love of books and learning made Ms. Elizabeth Sibley join the library profession 38 years ago and she has served in over a dozen different libraries mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her husband Chuck.

The eight-year-old Le Thi Tham, a Grade 2 pupil in Dong Son District of the northern province of Thanh Hoa, writes, draws and does daily activities using only her feet.

Yesterday (Apr. 28), together with a letter to the Chosun Daily, VWU sent letters to several Korean organizations, namely the Ministry of Gender Equality, Korea Women’s Inventors Association, Dasi Hamkle Center, Korea Women’s Hot Line, Korea Women’s Development Institute and Korea Women Entrepreneurs Association, as follows:

Yesterday (Apr. 27), VWU sent a letter to the Korean Chosun Daily as follows:

Right after the conclusion of the Xth Party National Congress in the morning of Apr. 24, 2006, that afternoon the Party, Trade Union and Youth Union of the Vietnam Women’s Union head office organized a celebration of the Party success.

The Ministry of Public Security and the UN Organisation for Drugs and Crimes (UNODC)-Viet Nam Office have agreed on a target of a 50 percent reduction the number of human trafficking crimes by 2010.

On April 24 – 30, Korean Television KBS, LG Company, and the Korean Fund for Social Activities will inaugurate ‘Love Request”, a charitable program for children in Ho Chi Minh City.