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.

After 20 years of implementing the Doi Moi (Renewal) process initiated and led by the Party, Vietnam has recorded tremendous achievements. As a result, women’s material and spiritual lives and position have constantly improved while gender quality has made remarkable progress, said Ha Thi Khiet, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Women’s Union in her report at the 10th Party Congress.

When a trafficked woman returns to her homeland from China, more than likely she will come back to a life full of loneliness and regrets.

Just a click away, web browsers can now place orders for handicrafts at an online market recently launched by two young people in Hanoi.

Women should have the same retirement age as men but with a choice of retiring earlier without their pension being affected, Ho Chi Minh City legislators said.

Using body language, disabled children politely serve customers at a coffee bar in Da Lat city, as they cannot pronounce a Vietnamese sentence.

Labor unions should help women get jobs, a Vietnamese labor official said at a conference in Hanoi Tuesday on the role of the unions in preventing trafficking of women and children.

An exhibition entitled “Vietnam – 20 Years of Renovation,” is one of the activities to welcome the upcoming 10th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and opens at the Centre for Culture and Art Exhibition in Hoa Lu street, Hanoi.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will meet with Vietnamese students at the Hanoi University of Polytechnics on April 22.

“Patient Support Vietnam” is a German humanitarian group that has financed much needed operations for Vietnamese people with physical deformities.

Vietnam paid more attention than ever to child care and protection and better executed child rights in the 2000-2005 period, said an official of the Vietnam Commission for Population, Family and Children.

A meeting was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union in the morning of March 30, 2006 to review communication activities against the abuse of adolescent domestic helpers.

Although women usually play the role of breadwinners in their families, doing strenuous work, old-fashioned thinking that values men above women is still stuck in a rut in some places, reflected by the popularly held idea that men should be taught new farming techniques rather than women.

Vietnamese students prove their international capability with outstanding study achievements abroad.

“When I gave up my job to work for the Social Welfare and Community Development Center without salary, many people thought I was unrealizable ”.

Lang Son, a northern province, shares a 253 km border and 7 border markets with China, which creates favorable conditions for socio-economic development. However, Lang Son also faces several social evils, including trafficking in women and children from Vietnam to China.

At the Conference of Vietnam - Cambodia border executive cooperation against trafficking in women and children held in Ho Chi Minh City from November 16-17 2005, delegates discussed measures to strenthen bilateral cooperation in fighting crimes, especially the trafficking in women and children.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide US$200,000 for a program to prevent human trafficking in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

A center at the headquarters of the Can Tho Women’s Union was established to provide an information network for trafficked women and children who have been sex victims

“Vietnam has set a good example to other countries on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)” said the UN Secretary Kofi Annan, which is considered as a great encouragement for Vietnam on the way to fully achieve the MDGs.

From May 9 to May 13, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) organized a Symposium on women and children related issues.

Trafficking in women and children has been seen as a social evil, as it does not only cause severe consequences for the victims and their family but also adversely affects the development of the community and the country.

On 26 April, In HaNoi, the Vietnam Women’s Union in coordination with the International Labor Organization (ILO) started the Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women at community level in Vietnam with the National Stakeholder Ownership Execise Workshop.