Vietnam strengthens education on human rights (Photo: VOV)

Human rights education aims to improve people’s knowledge about human rights and ways to protect their rights and respect other rights in alignment with national and international law on human right. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights lays a foundation for human rights education activities around the world including Vietnam.

Human rights education in Vietnam

Vietnam has achieved remarkable achievements in human rights and citizenship education, especially the education of children's rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the education of women's rights under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. The Party and State have adopted guidelines and policies on the implementation and education of human rights, citizenship, children’s rights, and women's rights.

Vietnam has established agencies for research on human rights, women's and children's rights, set up specialized teams, and implemented national action programs on women's rights and children's rights. Vietnam’s achievements in human rights education have raised Vietnam’s international status and created conditions for Vietnam in international integration.

Education of human rights and citizenship in Vietnam has raised public awareness and shaped the Vietnamese personality in socialism building, posing the need to strengthen the Vietnamese legal system to make it align with international treaties on human rights.

Vietnam promotes education of human rights

Vietnam intends to compile textbooks, books and educational materials on human rights for each specific target group, ensuring the connection of human rights education with citizenship education. Vietnam also aims to integrate human rights and citizenship education in curricula of primary, secondary, and high schools and universities.

For the training of cadres and managers, Vietnam continues to disseminate Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought, the Vietnamese Party and State directions on human rights, historical and contemporary perspectives on human rights, international human rights standards, and Vietnam’s legal system. Vietnam will develop its own methodology suitable for each target groups to make human rights education easy to understand, remember, and implement and focus on building a core team of teachers specialized in human rights. Vietnam has also increased investment and strengthened communications on human rights and citizenship in mass media.

Human rights education in Vietnam plays a particularly important and strategic role in the cause of education and training of the younger generation and the building a law-governed socialist state. It will give the public a correct awareness of human rights, and strengthen the public trust in the Party and State and fight against attempts by hostile and reactionary forces to distort human rights to sabotage socialism building in Vietnam.