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The National Assembly put human rights on the front burner, determined to draft new laws protecting human rights.
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The Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Vietnam’s highest legislative body, opened its 37th meeting in Hanoi on January 4 to discuss and accomplish a large number of draft laws including human rights.
The NA will study to build up laws on constitutional human rights including the right to set up societies, the right to gather, the right to go on strike, the right to hold referendum, the right to protect personal data and the right to access to available information.
The proposed laws on human rights are expected to help the state legal system on special groups of disabled people, transgender people, and homosexual people.
According to Nguyen Van Thuan, chairman of the NA’s Committee of Laws, NA deputies will also debate draft laws regarding the economy, which are set to accomplish the mechanism on the socialist-oriented market economy.
The legislative body will also review the implementation of and study amendments to supplement its Constitution in 1992 to update regulations so as to keep up with current developments.
Spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga made the comment while answering to a query about Vietnam’s reaction to the US House of Representatives December 17 approval of the resolution H. Res. 20 which demands bringing Vietnam back to the list of “country of particular concern” (CPC) in terms of religious freedom. Nga also affirmed the Vietnamese State’s consistent policy of respecting and creating favourable conditions for all people to freely participate in religion and beliefs.
December 18, a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman rejected a US resolution on religious freedom, saying it is not objective and fails to reflect correctly the current situation in the Southeast Asian country.
