Save the Children UK opened Friday a two-day seminar on child protection and child trafficking prevention in Vietnam which also introduced a strategy for the 2005-2010 period

The chairwoman of Austria’s Federal Council Sissy Roth Halvax arrived in Ha Noi today on a six-day working visit to Viet Nam from May 22 to 27.

Hearing two word “Vietnam”, Lil Green’s face becomes radiant as she smiles. She seems to return to the events and memories of more than 40 years ago.

Over the past years, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) has had several programs on health care, supporting children in mountainous and remote areas with stationery and learning materials and granted thousands of scholarships to difficult pupils who are talented at learning. For example:

On the afternoon of 18 April 2006, a meeting was held in the VWU head office for the female delegates to the 10th National Party Congress.

On the afternoon of 18 April 2006, a meeting was held in the VWU head office for the female delegates to the 10th National Party Congress.

Being a mother but never giving birth, orphaned but still having mother. This is happiness and reality to hundreds of children and mothers in Danang SOS Children Village.

After the class, Nguyen Thi Ha, the eighth grader from Nghi Thiet Junior Secondary School, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province, returns to her little house in the middle of rice field in Bac Thinh village. The house, without hands of a man but is very tidy and clean.

The "Midwife in the Village" programme implemented by Tu Du Hospital has become popular and helped to improve reproductive heath care for women in remote areas in Central Highlands.

Vietnam has seen much progress in terms of gender equality compared with other countries in the region, said Klaus Rohland, World Bank Country Director in Vietnam, at a mid-term conference to review the implementation of the National Strategy for Vietnamese Women's Advancement in Hanoi on May 12.

Accounting for more than half of the 600,000 sightless people, blind women face many difficulties and challenges.

Hai Phong Women’s Union has set up a Law Advisory Center in charge of consulting families and couples in areas related to foreign marriage and divorce, introduction law on civil and criminal affairs,

Representatives from the governments of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Phnompenh, Cambodia on May 10-12 to update and review the Sub-regional Plan of Action over the past three years and the implementation of the fight against human trafficking in Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee approved the project "Assisting women & children being trafficked and sexual slavery" and it is funded by Agir pour Les Femmes en Situation Precaire (AFESIP) organization.

The Ministry of Industry has approved Decision 468/QD-BCN. This decision is about rewarding authors of works who obtained the “Award of Creative Scientific Women” on March, 2nd 2006, in industrial sector.

Mrs. Pham Thi Bich Hue is the Vice Principle of Kim Dong Primary School in Quang Khue commune, Dak Glong district, Dak Nong province. It is she who has devoted 1,000m2 of land to build a school for hundreds of Catholic and Protestant children in the locality

Luong Tai district has 4 catholic communes and the town has 994 women who are Women’s Union (WU) members, accounting for 54% of catholic women from 18 years and above. These figures makes Luong Tai district a good example on mobilizing catholic women to join WU.

The 26th of March 2006 was an unforgettable day for Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung – a student of the gifted-student class in physics – Course K9 – at the University of Natural Sciences (under Hanoi National University).

The competition “Golden Hands in Clothes Making”, organized by the Association for the Protection of the Disabled and Orphans and the Women’s Union in Thai Binh province received 48 entries from disabled individuals. The competition is a chance for the disabled people to prove their abilities.

Dong Nai creates many favorable conditions for women’s contribution in all areas