This conference is one of the activities in the framework of the project “Research and Training on Human Rights” – a part of the “Good Governance and Public Administration Reform Program” (Phase II: 2012 – 2015) signed between the Danish Government and Vietnamese Government. Participants of the workshop come from different institutions and universities, such as: research institutes of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, HCMC University of Law, HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hue University, Hanoi University of Law, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Adminitration, Ton Duc Thang University, Central Highlands University, Can Tho University, and Vinh University.
Prof.Dr. Vo Khanh Vinh, Vice President of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Director of the Project “Research and Training on Human Rights”, chaired the conference and made the opening speech. He stated: “The workshop’s goal is to set a network with all law training institutions and organizations all over the country in order to share experience in human right training. A lot of members involved in the project have been sent to other countries in the world in order to learn experience in human right training. Recently, during the framework of the project, we also collaborated with Vinh University to hold the conference titled “Human rights with press issues”; we collaborated with Hue University to hold the conference titled “Human rights with social organizations”. Training on Human rights is provided not only at the faculty of law, but also at several faculties of the Graduate Academy of Social Sciences such as: Public policy, human development, social work …
12 papers were presented, including: “Combination between research and training on human rights in our country at present” (by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Bui Nguyen Khach, Vice Director, Institute of State and Law); “Research and training on human rights in Ho Chi Minh City University of Law” (by Dr. Tran Thi Roi, HCMC University of Law); “Human-rights Teaching from the perspective of international relations through the teaching subject of human security” (by Dr. Dao Minh Hong, Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities); “Research and training on human rights in the Graduate Academy of Social Sciences” (by Dr. Le Mai Thanh, Deputy Editor-in-chief, State and Law Review, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences); “Human rights and teaching of human rights at universities” (by Dr. Nguyen Duy Phuong, Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, Hue University); “Human-rights research and teaching activities at the Faculty of Law in Vinh University” (by M.A. Dinh Ngoc Thang, Dean, Faculty of Law, Vinh University); “Research and teaching of human rights at Hanoi University of Law”, (by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Huu Chi, Vice Dean, Faculty of Economic Law, Hanoi University of Law); “Institute of Human Rights with research and training work on human rights in Vietnam at present”, (by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hoang Van Nghia, Vice Director, Institute of Human Rights, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Adminitration); “Training and Research on human rights in the field of sociology”, (by Dr. Le Thi Mai, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang university); “Research and Training on human rights in Central Highlands University”, (by Dr. Tran Trung Dung, Vice Rector, Central Highlands University); “Research and Training on human rights at the Faculty of Law, Vietnam Trade Union University” (by Associate Prof.Dr. Le Thi Chau, Dean, Faculty of Law, Vietnam Trade Union University); and “Some thinking on the situation and direction of human-rights education in Can Tho University” (by Dr. Pham Van Beo, Dean, Department of Judicial Law, Faculty of Law, Can Tho University).
A lot of discussions and comments were made in the conference, when participants were sharing experience and information on human-rights research and training work.
Making the closing speech of the conference, Prof.Dr. Vo Khanh Vinh highlighted: “Issues relating to human rights were never shown so clearly and discussed so ebulliently before. In near future, human-rights training will be added to the Master’s courses for the discipline of politics at the Graduate Academy of Social Sciences. The project will link human-rights research and training issues together, aiming at providing multi- and inter-disciplinary research and training of social sciences in order to improve and expand training programs of human rights not only in Vietnam, but also in the whole region. In the framework of the project, we will seek for cooperation in human-rights training with other countries such as USA, Australia, Russia etc…; we will develop human-rights training linkages with Laos Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Academy of Cambodia. Especially, we will set up linkages in this field with the European Union. Prof.Dr. Vo Khanh Vinh also expressed the expectation that all universities that provide training on human rights will collaborate with each other in order to make the human-rights training much more effective, since we have never had such advantages for the human-rights training like this before as well as the Communist Party and the State have been issuing an appropriate guideline for this.
Nguyen Thu Ha
