Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will meet with Vietnamese students at the Hanoi University of Polytechnics on April 22.

“Patient Support Vietnam” is a German humanitarian group that has financed much needed operations for Vietnamese people with physical deformities.

Vietnam paid more attention than ever to child care and protection and better executed child rights in the 2000-2005 period, said an official of the Vietnam Commission for Population, Family and Children.

A meeting was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union in the morning of March 30, 2006 to review communication activities against the abuse of adolescent domestic helpers.

Although women usually play the role of breadwinners in their families, doing strenuous work, old-fashioned thinking that values men above women is still stuck in a rut in some places, reflected by the popularly held idea that men should be taught new farming techniques rather than women.

Vietnamese students prove their international capability with outstanding study achievements abroad.

“When I gave up my job to work for the Social Welfare and Community Development Center without salary, many people thought I was unrealizable ”.

Lang Son, a northern province, shares a 253 km border and 7 border markets with China, which creates favorable conditions for socio-economic development. However, Lang Son also faces several social evils, including trafficking in women and children from Vietnam to China.

At the Conference of Vietnam - Cambodia border executive cooperation against trafficking in women and children held in Ho Chi Minh City from November 16-17 2005, delegates discussed measures to strenthen bilateral cooperation in fighting crimes, especially the trafficking in women and children.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide US$200,000 for a program to prevent human trafficking in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

A center at the headquarters of the Can Tho Women’s Union was established to provide an information network for trafficked women and children who have been sex victims

“Vietnam has set a good example to other countries on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)” said the UN Secretary Kofi Annan, which is considered as a great encouragement for Vietnam on the way to fully achieve the MDGs.

From May 9 to May 13, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) organized a Symposium on women and children related issues.

Trafficking in women and children has been seen as a social evil, as it does not only cause severe consequences for the victims and their family but also adversely affects the development of the community and the country.

On 26 April, In HaNoi, the Vietnam Women’s Union in coordination with the International Labor Organization (ILO) started the Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women at community level in Vietnam with the National Stakeholder Ownership Execise Workshop.