On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of HAI, on behalf of Vietnam Women’s Union and its 13 million members through out the country, the Presidium of VWU would like to extend to you all the warmest congratulation and the best wishes.

In the morning of November 14, 2008, at the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (UNIFEM) office in Hanoi, Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) handed books of about 600,000 signatures (1st stage) of staff, members, women and the people from over 40 provinces/cities nationwide responding UNIFEM’s campaign “Say NO to violence against women” to UNIFEM.

Violence against women is a global pandemic, in fact 1 in 3 women will experience an incident of violence in their life time would firstly like to congratulate Madame Hoa and the Vietnam Women’s Union for partnering with UNIFEM on this very important campaign. The Vietnam Women’s Union has enormous ability to reach large numbers of women across all sections of society and geographic locations.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a culture exchange named “Meeting the Fall Culture” on September 22. Attending this event were Ambassadors’ wives and embassies’ female staffs from 24 countries which were members of Asia – Pacific Women’s Union in Japan.

First of all, on be half of VWU and the women in Vietnam, I would like to extend to you our warmest greetings and sincerest thanks for inviting us to join your significant even – the South African Women’s Inventors and Innovators - and visit your beautiful country and meet you all.

At the invitation of the Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation of Germany (SBFIC) and the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), a delegation headed by Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Kim Thuý – Vice President of VWU visited and had meetings in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium from 2 – 14 June 2008.

(10th to 13th of June in Brussels, Belgium)

At the invitation of the President of Korea’s Women Invention Association (KWIA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Mme Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of the Party’s Central Committee, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union headed the Vietnamese women delegation (4 delegates including 2 successful women entrepreneurs) to attend the Korean-International Women Inventors’ Forum in Seoul, Korea on 6th – 11th May, 2008.

From 5-7 June 2008, leaders of VWU had several meetings at the headquarter of VWU with international delegations

Thanh Nien Daily interviews outspoken social activist and political figure Irene Natividad, president of the Global Summit of Women, as she prepares for the three-day summit in Hanoi beginning tomorrow.

About 1,000 female entrepreneurs and politicians are set to attend the 2008 Global Summit of Women from June 5-7 in Hanoi.

Global Summit of Women is an international forum to connect female entrepreneurs, experts, government leaders from all countries over the world, for the establishment of a global women coalition in order to share the best practices, successful business strategies, to deal with the problems that women are facing with in their business, to raise the role of women not only in business but also in all political-social activities.

Since assuming the post of the first director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Vietnam more than four years ago, Rose Marie Greve has made active contributions to the issues of labour, jobs and struggle against trafficking in woman and children in Vietnam.

VWU Meeting on the Occasion of International Women’s Day

Hanoi, 5th March 2008

Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, President of Vietnam Women’s Union

In the morning of 1 April 2008, at the Headoffice of Vietnam Women’s Union, Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Central Party’s Committee, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union, received the Ambassador of South Africa in Viet Nam, Mr.Ratubatshi Super Moloi.

On 20 March, Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Central Party’s Committee, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union, received Mr. Eiffle Ben-Matiyau, Ambassador of Israel to Vietnam.

In the morning of 29 March, the delegation of Cuban Women’s Federation leaded by Ms. Surina Acosta Brooks, member of Cuban State council, member of Cuban Women’s Federation’s Secretariat, General Secretary of Santiago de Cuba provincial Women’s Federation, visited Vietnam Women’s Union on the occasion of its visit to Vietnam from 28 March to 2 April, 2008. Joining the delegation were representatives from Cuban Embassy to Hanoi

In the afternoon of 31st, March, Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Central Party’s Committee, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union, warmly welcomed the Chinese Entrepreneur delegation at the Headquarter of the Vietnam Women’s Union in Hanoi on the occasion of the delegation’s working visit to Vietnam.

UNAIDS Viet Nam representative, Eamonn Murphy has delivered a special message for men for International Women’s Day that falls today.

A series of activities will be organised from November 10-December 10 by the Vietnam HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Department in response to World AIDS Day.

Representatives from Vietnamese non-governmental organisations (NGO)s adopted an action plan on HIV/AIDS prevention and control from now until the decade-end at a workshop in Hanoi on November 13.

As many as 11 villages and townships in poverty-stricken Quan Hoa district in central Thanh Hoa province will benefit from a World Vision project on sustainable development.

From 22nd to 24thAugust 2007, Mme. Ha Thi Khiet, Chairwoman of NCFAW and VWU’s President, attended the Asian-Pacific workshop on “Gender and Aid Effectiveness,” which was organized in Jakarta by UNIFEM and the Ministry for Promoting the Empowerment of Women (Indonesia).

While visiting and working with the Hanoi Women’s Union, on the afternoon of 23rd August, the delegation of the Vientiane Women’s Union, headed by Mme. Bualon Vong Dalaxen, President of the Vientiane Women’s Union, visited the Vietnam Women’s Union. The delegation was received by Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Standing Vice President of the Vietnam Women’s Union.

Some 30,000 villagers of Ha Tinh Province in communes hardest hit by Typhoon No 2 earlier this month will benefit from a new humanitarian project run by international aid agency Oxfam that began yesterday.

To protect interests of the Vietnamese brides in foreign marriage and family relations, contributing to put strict implementation of regulations of Law on Marriage and Family relating to marriage to foreigners.

Captain Bruce Stewart, director of the Pacific Partnership Programme, gave a token of presents worth US$100,000 to charity organsations, street children centres and associations in support of children in Central Da Nang City.

The morning of July 10 witnessed a touching reunion in Frankfurt/M city (Germany) between a Vietnamese migrant worker, her daughter and a German couple who supported them during their time in Germany in the 1980s.

Vice State President Truong My Hoa received Oxfam Great Britain Executive Director Barbara Stoking in Ha Noi on July 23.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has decided to inject an additional US $933,000 into the 'HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Vietnam-Round II' project.

The US non-governmental organisation “PeaceTrees Vietnam” have joined the Vietnamese Embassy in the US to raise money to build 100 houses in central Quang Tri province.

Kaoru Sugano, from Kobe, Japan, has recently donated all of her assets, valued at US $90,000 for the building of the new kindergarten of Hoa Mi in Lien Chieu district, Da Nang, reported Dan Tri Online.

Actionaid in Vietnam, a non-governmental organization involved in poverty reduction, has offer US$ 17,300 to southern Vinh Long province to implement the second phase of the project to prevent women and children trafficking across the border.

A group of students from the US’s Winona Senior High School are kicking off a fund-raising movement to raise US$10,000 to build a primary school in Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

That is the goal of the visit to VWU of South Africa President’s Spouse – Mme. Zanele M. Mbeki in the morning of 24 May 2007 in the framework of the President’s official visit to Vietnam. Welcoming the President’s Spouse and delegation are Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of Central Communist Party Committee, Standing Vice-President of VWU and other leaders of Departments and Units of VWU.

This is the confirmation stated by VWU’s President Ha Thi Khiet in support to the Vietnamese brides too be naturalized in Korean society, in the afternoon 6th June in her meeting with the Representative of Logos Law Company – one of leading Law companies Korea.

At the invitation of Laos Women’s Union, a Vietnam Women’s Union delegation headed by Mme. Ha Thi Khiet, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), Chairwoman of the National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam paid an official visit to Lao Women’s Union from 22nd-26th May, 2007.

With deep sadness for the friend’s death VILMA ESPIN, the WIDF – Women International Democratic Federation offers its homage to this great heroine of the Cuban revolution and the women's worldwide struggle.

In the early morning of 19 June 2007 (Vietnam time), Mrs. Vilma Espin, former member of the Cuban Communist Party’s Politburo, former member of Cuba’s Council of State, President of Cuba’s Council of State, President of the Cuban Women’s Federation, spouse of Vice President Raul Castro, passed away at the age of 77.

At the invitation of the Korean Ministry of Trade and Foreign Affairs, the VWU delegation led by Madam Ha Thi Khiet, Member of the Central Party Committee, President of VWU visited Korea from 23 -26 May 2007

At the invitation of the President of Vietnam Nguyen Minh Triet, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hoost Kohler and his spouse Eva Luise Kohler paid an official visit to Vietnam from 21 – 23 May, 2007. On this occasion, Mme. Eva Kohler visited the Central Vietnam Women’s Union with the warm welcome from Mme. Ha Thi Khiet, Member of the Vietnam Central Committee of the Party (CCP), President of VWU, Chairperson of the National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam and Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of the CCP , First Vice President of VWU.

The wife of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Lesley Stuttard, visited a school for children with disabilities in Hanoi on May 3 as part of a charity drive.

In the morning of 8th March 2007, Mr. John Hendra, UN Resident Coordinator visited and gave complement to VWU’s carders and members on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

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Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Leire Pajin Iraola, arrived in Hanoi on January 17 to begin a four-day official visit to the country and is scheduled to meet with Vietnamese authorities, counterparts and partners of Spanish Official Development Assistance projects.

The first-ever Korean Cultural Center in Southeast Asia was opened Saturday in Hanoi in the presence of the Republic of Korea’s First Lady Kown Yang-suk.

The Canadian Prime Minister’s wife bought five silk scarves at the Ha Dong Silk Shop on Hang Gai Street. The Australian Prime Minister’s wife ordered five silk dresses. The Indonesian President’s wife bought embroidered paintings at the XQ Shop as souvenirs.

Vice President Truong My Hoa urged local businesswomen to actively take the advantage of the country's WTO accession and engage in the economic integration process.