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Vietnam Centers

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Vietnam Centers

 

Known Centers based in Vietnam

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Centre for Legal Research on Human and Citizens’ Rights

-  Hochiminh City University of Law

 

Year Established: 2008

Short Historical Background

 

The Centre for Legal Research on Human and Citizens’ Rights (HCRC) of Hochiminh City Law University was established in 2008 as the University’s unit responsible for research and education of law on human and citizens’ rights.

Objectives

HCRC aims
1.    To become the leading research and teaching center in southern Vietnam in the field of human rights and citizens’ rights;
2.    To contribute to raising awareness and scientific correctness of students students' understanding of human rights and citizens’ rights;
3.    To research on human rights issues in China that supports the legislative process in Vietnam.

Programs

1. Database: This covers gathering of information, papers, books, laws and regulations on human rights and citizens’ rights in order to set up a database that supports the research and study of students and lecturers. It also arranges various channels for exchange of information and research results among researchers, lecturers, collaborators and students.
2. Research: This includes conducting research on human and citizens’ rights based on the social background of Vietnam and on international lawmaking experience. Research topics are stretched widely regarding economic, social, cultural, civil and political human and citizens’ rights.
3. Education: This involves the development of the curriculum for teaching human and citizens’ rights in the Hochiminh City Law University (bachelor and higher degrees). This also includes publishing textbooks and reading materials concerning the law on human and citizens’ rights.
4. Cooperation: HCRC is a center for research and teaching cooperation among various researchers, and other research institutions, universities and teaching centers concerning human and citizens’ rights.

Activities

Since its establishment, HCRC has been receiving support from many collaborators and colleagues in Vietnam and abroad. Despite initial difficulties, HCRC has established its technical infrastructure and strengthened its human resources. It sends its officials to training workshops on professional information management system and other workshops in the country.

HCRC undertakes the following activities:

1. Study of human rights and citizenship in relation to Administrative Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, as well as international conventions on human rights;
2. Support research projects on human rights law of its officials as well as teachers and students;
3. Organize workshops and seminars to exchange research results on human rights and citizens’ rights.

In addition, HCRC continues to send officials and teachers to workshops in the country that would enhance their research capacity. Also, it holds other capacity-building activities for its personnel.

Special Concerns

HCRC has special concern about human rights issues in the country and throughout the region, especially rights of vulnerable groups of people.

Publications

Most of researches funded by HCRC are carried out by its lecturers and scholars and have been published as books and academic papers on various legal journals in Vietnam.

Address

Centre for Legal Research on Human and Citizens’ Rights (HCRC)

Hochiminh City University of Law
02 Nguyen Tat Thanh Street
Ward 12, District 4
Hochiminh City, Vietnam
ph (84-28) 3940 0989
e-mail: hcrc[a]hcmulaw.edu.vn
http://hcrc.hcmulaw.edu.vn/


 

Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS)

 

Year Established: 1987

Short Historical Background

 

In 1987, the Vietnamese government established the Center for Women Studies, one of the research institutes of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). During the International Year of the Family in 1994, the Vietnamese Government assigned to the Center an additional responsibility of taking on family studies. As a result, the Center was renamed the Center for Family and Women Studies. In February 2004, the Vietnamese government again renamed the Center into Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS). The Institute is the first and leading research institution of the Vietnamese government on women, family and gender issues.

 

Objective

 

The Institute aims to undertake theoretical and practical research to provide Vietnam's leaders, policy makers and planners at all levels with scientific arguments in the development of laws and policies on the family, women and gender equality. The Institute is the first and leading research institution of the Vietnamese government on women, family and gender issues.

 

Programs

 

Research on the following issues:

 

Women Studies

  • Theories and methodologies of women’s studies
  • Women, labour, employment, and income: job provision, income generation, and poverty reduction for women
  • Women and rural economic development: household economic development, women’s roles in rural economic development, and non-agricultural industry development
  • Women, population and health: Awareness, attitudes, and behaviours of young women, ethnic women, poor women, and migrants, regarding their reproductive health
  • Women, education, culture, and social affairs: the impacts of education policies, law education in families for family members, especially women, and the content and methods of education in families; prostitution and trafficking in women in Vietnam

 

Family studies

  • Theories and methodologies of family studies
  • The structure and function of Vietnamese families’ transformation from traditional life to modern circumstances
  • Gender-based labour division in families, family economy
  • Family welfare
  • Social policies on family
  • Marriage and divorce
  • Family conflict and domestic violence

 

Gender equality studies

  • Theories and methodologies of gender studies
  • Theoretical and practical foundations for implementing gender equality in Vietnam during the Doi Moi transition and for implementing socio-economic development policies as Vietnam pursues a socialist-oriented market economy
  • The roles and participation of rural women and men in developing households’ economies and relevant influential factors
  • Gender issues in education-vocational training system, influential factors and measures to improve gender inequality
  • Gender issues in employment and the workforce, especially in the non-state economic sector in the context of transition and economic integration

 

Studies on children

  • Theories and methodologies of gender studies
  • The roles of the family in the formation and development of a child’s personality
  • Education for children
  • Child labor in the period of economic transition
  • Family, school and society in protecting, caring and educating children
  • Violence against children
  • Adolescent reproductive health
  • Social problems related to HIV/AIDS among children

 

Policy-responsive studies

  • Improvement of working conditions for women in some areas
  • Employment and equality for women
  • Impact of new socio-economic policies on women in rural areas
  • Social policies towards women and family
  • Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation for women in mountainous and rural areas
  • Women and social non-conformity: prostitution, violence against women, homeless children and women

 

Activities

 

  1. Designing and implementing theoretical and empirical studies in the fields of family, women and gender, independently or in cooperation with other research organizations, institutes, and universities at home and abroad
  2. Delivering lectures at universities at home and abroad on family, women and gender issues
  3.  Disseminating scientific knowledge of family, women and gender through publications and other information channels
  4. Building a network of information, documentation, library and necessary technical infrastructure for its studies on family, women and gender as a leading research center in the country in the fields of family, women and gender studies
  5. Providing consultation for organizations and bodies interested in and related to family, women and gender issues
  6. Providing active and effective support for the development of women through advocacy activities.

 

Publications

 

Periodicals

 

  • Journal of Family and Gender Studies, Bimonthly in Vietnamese language
  •  Vietnam Journal of Family and Gender Studies, Biannual in English language

Books

  • Gender equality in Vietnam (2008)
  • Evolving process of domestic violence in Vietnam: Detection from a qualitative research (2008) (Forthcoming)
  • Family Research: Feminist Theories and Gender Perspective (2006)
  • Life and Change of Marriage and the Family in Vietnam Today (2006)
  • Single Women in Vietnam (2005)
  • Family and Women with Population, Culture and Sustainable Development in Vietnam (2004)
  • Marriage and Family: Question and Answers (2004)
  • Studies on Women, Gender and Family (2003)
  • Family and Education of Reproductive Health for Adolescents (2003)
  • Divorce: Hanoi Case Study (2002)
  • Basic Data on Vietnamese Family and Women in Industrialization and Modernization in the North of the Country (2002)
  • Vietnamese Family and Women in Industrialization and Modernization of the Country (2002)
  • Vietnamese Family in Doimoi Context (2002)
  • Family and Women in Socio-Cultural Change in Rural Areas (2001)
  • Female Labor Migration: Rural-Urban (2001)
  • Female Workers in Non-State Industrial Sector and Legal Services in Vietnam (2001)
  • Prevention of Trafficking in Women in Vietnam (2000)
  • Wedding and Public Opinion at Present (2000)
  • Women and Doimoi in Vietnam (2000)
  • Research and Training on Gender in Vietnam (1999)
  • Rural Women and the Development of Non-Agricultural Occupation (1998)
  • Social Policies for Rural Women (1998)
  • The Role of the Family in the Formation of Vietnamese Personality (1999)
  • Women and Gender Equality in Doimoi in Vietnam (1998)
  • Economic Potential of Vietnamese Women (1997)
  • Social Policies for Rural Women at Present (1997)
  • Ten Years of Progress: Vietnamese Women (1997)
  • Women and the Development of Micro Enterprises in Vietnam (1997)
  • Families Without or Absent Husbands (1996)
  • Poor Women under Market Economy (1996)
  • Vietnamese Family at Present (1996)
  • Vietnamese Family and Its Functions of Socialization (1996)
  • Vietnamese Family: Its Responsibilities and Resources in Doimoi of the Country (1995)
  • Women and Employment: Some Stories (1995)
  • Family and the Issue of Education in the Family (1994)
  • Marriage and the Family of Tay, Nung and Thai Minorities in Vietnam (1994)
  • Household Economy and the Issue of Training for Women in Rural Areas (1993)
  • Job Creation, Income Generation for Women (1993)
  • The Questions of Health and Biological Structure of Rural Women (1991)
  • Vietnamese Women and Family at present (1991)
  • President Ho Chi Minh and the Way leading Vietnamese Women to Equality, Freedom and Development (1990)
  • Selected Data on Vietnamese Women (1990)
  • Vietnamese Women in the Eighties (1989)

 

 

Address

 

Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS)

6 Dinh Cong Trang street, Hoan Kiem district

Hanoi, Vietnam

ph (844) 933-0435

fax (844) 933-2890

e-mail: ifgs[a]hn.vnn.vn; minhnguyen.ifgs[a]gmail.com

www.ifgs.org.vn

 

 

 

 

Research Center for Human and Citizen’s Rights

- Law Faculty of Vietnam National University (VNU - Hanoi)

 

Year Established: 2007

Short Historical Background

 

The Law Faculty of the Vietnam National University (VNU – Hanoi), founded in 1976, established the Research Center for Human and Citizen’s Rights in 2007. The Dean of the Faculty decided to found the Center in order to focus on human rights research and education.

 

Objective

 

The Center aims to popularize legal norms on rights and enhance the knowledge of students and members of the community on human and citizens' rights.

 

Programs

 

  1. Legal Information – collection of legal data (in Vietnamese and English), maintenance of a law library and an online legal resource, and provision of legal counsel on rights-related issues
  2. Research – research on human and citizens' rights, and capacity-building on rights-related issues for scholars and lawyers
  3. Education - drafting curriculums and teaching of human rights in universities (graduate and post-graduate levels); popularizing legal norms on rights and enhancing the knowledge on human and citizens' rights of the students and members of the community
  4. Cooperation - liaising between national and international researchers, educators, researchers, educational institutions and universities on human rights study.

 

Special Concerns

 

Human rights education and research

 

Publication

 

The Centre has produced around 30 books including textbooks, references, compilations of materials...on human rights. All of these books are in Vietnamese, among them:

  • Q & A on Human Rights (published in 2010, 2011 and 2012)
  • Textbook on Human Rights (published in 2009 and 2011)
  • Complation of Internation Instruments on Human Rights (2010)
  • Human Rights Reader: Selection of Historical Material (2010)

 

Address

 

Research Center for Human & Citizen's Rights (CHR)

Law Faculty of Vietnam National University (VNU - Hanoi)

E1 Building,144, Xuan Thuy Rd. Cau Giay, Hanoi, VIETNAM

ph (844) 7547913

fax (844) 7547913

e-mail: ttquyenconnguoi[a]gmail.com

 

 

 

Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights (VIHR)

 

Year Established: 1994

 

Short Historical Background

 

In Vietnam, the awareness of human rights has existed for a long time. During the renovation process (Doi Moi), Vietnam has shown an interest in human rights research as an independent scientific subject. As a result, the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights (formerly Vietnamese Research Centre for Human Rights  or VRCHR) was established under the HoChiMinh National Political Academy, which has the status of a ministry, in 1994. The Hochiminh National Political Academy is the most influential Communist Party think-tank and its pre-eminent centre for political scientific education. Since then VIHR became a unique and key scientific institution in promoting human rights awareness in Vietnam.

 

Objectives

 

VIHR aims

  1. To conduct basic research on the history and theory of human rights as well as systematic research on the situation of the actual implementation of human rights in Vietnam and around the world;
  2. To teach human rights to Vietnamese public servants, to educate and strengthen the awareness of human rights at all levels of society;
  3. To develop and disseminate human rights documents in the society;
  4. To strengthen the scientific base and contribute to policy and law making related to human rights;
  5. To enhance the international relations and cooperation concerning human rights research with human rights institutions in other countries and international NGOs working in Vietnam.

 

Programs

 

Research on various themes

Teaching/education for different target groups

Convening of national workshops and conferences

Preparation of human rights documents

Publication of books and monthly fact-sheets on human rights

Building up good relations and cooperation with human rights institutions around the world.

 

Activity

 

Research

 

 

Publications

 

  • Information of Human Rights, newsletter
  • Pocketbook on the International Bill of Human Rights
  • Pocketbook on Women and Children's Rights
  • Traditional Practices and Guarantee of Equality Rights for Women and Children in Vietnam
  • Human Rights : Major International Instruments
  • Human Rights : Some Major International Instruments
  • Introduction to the International Bill of Human Rights
  • For Children's Rights and Equality for Women
  • Training Manual on Children's Rights
  • Pictures on Children's Rights

 

 

Address

 

Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights (VIHR)

HoChiMinh National Political Academy

HVCTQG Hochiminh -

No. 135 Nguyen Phong Sac str.

Nghia Tan, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, VIETNAM

ph (844) 836-2468

fax (844) 756-5126 ; 8361-194

e-mail: vrchr[a]fpt.vn; vchumanrights[a]fpt.vn

 

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