VIETNAM UPR 2014 – NATIONAL REPORT

Director General of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organisations Hoang Chi Trung address the event. Photo: VNA

Director General of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organisations Hoang Chi Trung address the event. Photo: VNA

Human Rights Council
Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review
Eighteenth session
27 January – 7 February 2014

National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21*
Viet Nam

I. Methodology
A. Drafting process
1. The report is drafted in accordance with the guidelines of Resolution 60/251 dated 15 March 2006 of the United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 5/1 dated 18 June 2007 of the Human Rights Council and Decision 17/119 dated 19 June 2011 of the Human Rights Council to review the promotion and protection of human rights in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
2. The report focuses on the implementation of the UPR recommendations accepted by Viet Nam during the last review and new developments of the promotion and protection of human rights in the territory of Viet Nam. The report also highlights challenges and priorities of the Government of Viet Nam to ensure the better enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by its people.
3. The drafting process of this report was carried out by an inter-agency Working Group composing of Government agencies and National Assembly’s Committees working in the field of human rights, including the Office of the Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, Government Committee for Religious Affairs (Ministry of Home Affairs), Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee of Ethnic Minorities, People’s Supreme Court, People’s Supreme Procuracy, National Assembly’s Committee on Law, National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the focal point for the drafting process.

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