With Vietnam celebrating the 44th anniversary of joining the United Nations this month, Caitlin Wiesen, resident representative in Vietnam for the United Nations Development Programme, pores over the country's progress in human development and the challenges ahead to tackle various inequalities.
The Government has set 17 sustainable development goals to 2030, in Decree No 136/NQ-CP which was issued recently.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) co-hosted an event on September 24 to release the independent Review of Ten Years of Implementing the Law on Gender Equality.
Enhancing state management on climate change is one of the major measures set in the national plan on climate change adaptation for 2021-2030, with a vision towards 2050, recently issued by the Prime Minister.
Young Vietnamese women now raise a stronger voice against violence compared to a decade ago, a conference in Hanoi on July 14 heard.