At the invitation of the Korean Democratic Women’s Union, Mme Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Vietnam Party Central Committee, president of the Vietnam Women’s Union led the Vietnamese Women’s delegation to pay a friendship visit to Korea during 23-27 Feb, 2009.

from Vietnam Women’s Union

In the morning of February 12th 2009 in Hanoi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the cooperation of ASEAN Fund, organized a workshop on ASEAN Fund and Solidarity Fund-Japan, with an aim to provide information and guidelines on making proposals for projects to be funding in ASEAN to improve the effectiveness and quality of making proposals and the implementation of cooperative projects in the Initiatives for ASEAN Integration.

In the after noon of the new year event December 30th , 2008, the central of Vietnam Women’s Union organized a ceremony to confer the Merit Medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to Mr. Ian Howie, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP) Representative in Vietnam.

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