6th National Women's Congress (1987-1992)

Attending the Congress were 1,138 delegates (including 700 official delegates). The Congress was honored to welcome Comrade Truong Chinh - Chairman of the State Council; Pham Van Dong - Chairman of the Council of Ministers; Nguyen Duc Tam - Politburo Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

The Congress set out the tasks to be implemented during the term, as follows: Strengthening education to build new socialist women, encouraging women to actively perform the Resolution of the 6^th Party Congress; Taking care of women and children’s rights; Guiding and helping women build new cultural families; Enhancing solidarity and friendship with women in the world in the struggle for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress; Consolidating women unions at levels, training and fostering cadres, innovating the methods of the organization’s operations.

The Congress emphasized 8 contents to be implemented in the renovation process, namely: Educating and building new socialist women; Encouraging women to actively implement the Resolution of the 6^th Party Congress, focusing on three major economic programs; Participating in building, and supervising the implementation of policies, regimes and working and living conditions for women and children; Doing well the back-office work; Mobilizing, organizing and guiding women to promote their role as mothers, contributing to building families and well raising children; Strengthening solidarity and friendship with women in the world in the struggle for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress; Training and fostering cadres, innovating the Union’s operation methods; Building and consolidating women unions at levels.

The Congress elected the 6^th Central Committee consisting of 98 members. The Standing Committee consists of 15 members. Comrade Nguyen Thi Dinh was re-elected as President. Vice Presidents include comrades: Nguyen Thi Than, Tran Thi Thanh Thanh, Truong My Hoa, Ngo Ba Thanh, Hoang Xuan Sinh.

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE VIETNAM WOMEN’S UNION FOR THE 1987-1992 TERM