Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) presented the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to UN Women Representative in Vietnam Elisa Fernandez, during a ceremony in Hanoi on May 10.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan received Elisa Fernandez Saenz, Country Representative of UN Women in Vietnam, on May 4, appreciating his guest’s contributions to the promotion of gender equality and the protection of women and girls.

VOV.VN - Michelle Bachelet Jeria, former President of Chile, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former Executive Director of UN Women led a delegation from Chile on April 3 to talk with female foreign officials and Vietnamese students about the role of female leaders in multilateral organisations, as well as to discuss foreign, political, and social activities.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Women's Union and the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Vietnam (UN Women) hosted an international forum on March 29 titled "Women, Cybersecurity and STEM".

VOV.VN - Female ambassadors, representatives from diplomatic corps and international organisations, along with spouses of diplomats in Vietnam gathered together in Hanoi on March 21 to find about more about silk weaving and silk products in Vietnam.

More women than ever are holding political decision-making posts worldwide, but gender parity is still far off, said the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in a report released on March 7.

VOV.VN - The first-ever book festival on gender equality is being held from March 4 to March 11 at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi.

A seminar to share experience in building safe campus in universities has been organised by the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents (CSAGA), the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) office in Vietnam in conjunction with Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

More than 100 people in Hanoi on November 26 participated in a football festival which aims to popularise a message of putting an end to violence against women and children.

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Office in Vietnam have hosted a training workshop for key opinion leaders (KOLs) in Hanoi to eliminate violence against women and children.