The special relationship between Vietnam and Laos, which has experienced many challenges and continuously developed over the years, is a priceless asset and a resource for the two countries’ development.

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On behalf of the VWU’s Presidium, Vice President H’Ngam Nie KDam conferred the honor medal on Mme. Eva Lindskog (a Swedish expert) to acknowledge her great contribution to Vietnamese women, especially women in isolated and ethnic minority areas on 7 September 2009 at the Headquarter of VWU.

On 6 July 2009, Mme. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, President of VWU received Mr. Bruce Campbell, Head representative of UNFPA in Vietnam to pay a courtesy visit and find possible cooperation between VWU and UNFPA on the occasion of taking up his duties as head representative of UNFPA in Vietnam.

Choummaly Sayasone, General Secretary of the Lao People Revolutionary Party and President, highly valued the sincere and effective assistance from the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) to Laos while receiving a high-level delegation of the VWU in Vientiane on July 16.

On July 9, 2009, the VWU’s First Vice President Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy with Deputy Directors of some VWU’s Departments welcomed the delegation of the German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs led by Mr. Klaus Braundner, Secretary of State, on the occasion of their working visit to Vietnam.

In a makeshift room inside an unfinished building in the Manyatta slums in the Western Kenyan city of Kisumu, the neighbourhood’s men regularly congregate to discuss community matters, usually in the presence of the area chief.

Dame Clemence perfume has appeared at some small cosmetic stores in Hanoi and also at sauna centres of five-star hotels in Hanoi. The fragrances of citronella, ginger, perrila and pomelo have surprised foreign visitors.

In the afternoon of May 29th 2009, Mrs. Pham Hoai Giang, VWU Presidium member, Head of the International Relations Department welcomed Mrs. HeeWon Brindle-Khym, NGO and Trade Union Coordinator of the Fair Labor Association to visit and work with VWU.

With the invitation of President of Korea Women Inventors Association (KWIA) and World Intellectual Property Organization, Mme. Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy, Vice President of Vietnam Women’s Union headed the Vietnamese women delegation to attend the 2nd Forum and Exposition: “Korea International Women’s Invention Forum 2009” in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, during 29th April – 5th May, 2009.

The Vietnam Women Union delegation headed by Mme. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh – Alternative member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Vice President of the Vietnam Women’s Union paid a working visit to China during April 5th -10th, 2009.

On April 22, the Ministry of Education and Training organized a signing ceremony of emulation movement “Building friendly schools and active students” for the period of 2009 – 2013 in coordination with the Vietnam Women’s Union and the Learning Promotion Association. Taking part in this ceremony are representatives of the Central Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) founded in 1930 is a socio-political organization which is mandated to protect the legal rights and legitimate interests of women in Vietnam. In the history of its development, particularly since DOI MOI (Renovation), VWU has taken various measures such as vocational training, loans providing, awareness raising, and technical transferring, ect. to help women in poverty alleviation for their livelihood improvement and social status enhancement. To realize its missions, besides internal resources, VWU also mobilized and made use of international support from donors (GOs and NGOs) including Marie Schlei Association (Germany).

On April 21, 2009, the Vice President of Vietnam Women’s Union, Hoang Thi Ai Nhien, warmly received the delegation of the RCD Party of Tunisia headed by Mme. Hager Chérif Chebil, the Deputy General Secretary in charge of Foreign Affairs, on their working visit to VWU.

From April 14-19, 2009, a VWU delegation headed by Mrs. H’Ngam Nie KDam, VWU Vice President, and 16 members (including representatives from VWU departments/agencies and some centres for International marriages Supporting and Counseling) paid a study visit to some provinces of Korea.

On March 30th 2009, President of Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa received the Norwegian working group on partnership between Vietnam and Norway for gender equality

On March 26th 2009, Mrs. H’Ngam Nie K’Dam, Vice-President of the Vietnam Women’s Union conferred the Merit Medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to 8 individuals who have contributed substantially to the cause of women and children health care and health protection.

On the afternoon 2nd February, 2009, in central VWU, Madame Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of Central Party Committee, President of VWU has welcomed scholars and Russian enterprises leading by Professor University of St. Peterburge, Mr Zaznobin Vladimir Mikhalovic, on the occasion to visit Vietnam to explore investment opportunities and development of partners in economics, finance and trade.

A forum on co-operative relations in deploying a progarmme on assisting poor districts was organised by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare in Hanoi on March 18.

The Vietnam Women’s Union is very happy to be informed that the VIII National Women’s Congress of the Cuban Women’s Union was ended successfully and comrade YOLANDA FERRER GOMEZ was re-selected as General Secretary of Cuban Women’s Union.

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.

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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.