Vietnam ranks 1st in Asia for ratio of women members in national assembly
Over the past 5 years, since President Tran Duc Luong and the representatives from 188 countries signed the commitment to the implementation of the MDGs at the UN Summit in 9/2000, Vietnam has made great efforts and taken initiatives to materialize the 8 MDGs on hunger eradication and poverty reduction; primary education popularization; gender equality; mother & children’s health care; HIV/AIDS prevention; sustainable environment protection and establishment of global partnership for development.
Being a signatory State to MDGs,
A survey of household’s living standard showed that the ratio of the poor households in
The goals on gender equality, children & mother’s health care have increasingly been concerned and addressed by the Government, thus gained significant achievements. Particularly, the status of the Vietnamese women at present has changed a lot against that of 10 years ago.