Vietnam is striving to perfect its laws and policies to foster therights of disabled people and plans to ratify the UN Convention on theRights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2014.
Theinformation was unveiled in the National Report on Human Rights underthe UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Vietnam earlier signed the CRPD in 2008 and issued the Law on Persons with Disabilities two years later.
From 2010-2013, a total of 13 regulations on the rights of disabledpersons were issued, covering communication, sports, tourism, socialwelfare access and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The handicapped received assistance from the State in health care, rehabilitation and job seeking.
In order to best enforce the law on disabled persons, the PrimeMinister has ratified a national project to support persons withdisabilities from 2012-2020, demonstrating the Vietnamese Government’scommitment.
Country Director of the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) Gyorgy Sziraczki has highly valued Vietnam’s recentachievements and efforts in issuing the law and attaining ratificationof the CRPD.
He suggested the government properly invest inimproving the skills of teachers working with disabled students at allgrades.
Relating agencies should offer assistance, both intechnique and finance, to help enterprises and disabled workersexperience a proper working environment, he added.-VNA
Theinformation was unveiled in the National Report on Human Rights underthe UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Vietnam earlier signed the CRPD in 2008 and issued the Law on Persons with Disabilities two years later.
From 2010-2013, a total of 13 regulations on the rights of disabledpersons were issued, covering communication, sports, tourism, socialwelfare access and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The handicapped received assistance from the State in health care, rehabilitation and job seeking.
In order to best enforce the law on disabled persons, the PrimeMinister has ratified a national project to support persons withdisabilities from 2012-2020, demonstrating the Vietnamese Government’scommitment.
Country Director of the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) Gyorgy Sziraczki has highly valued Vietnam’s recentachievements and efforts in issuing the law and attaining ratificationof the CRPD.
He suggested the government properly invest inimproving the skills of teachers working with disabled students at allgrades.
Relating agencies should offer assistance, both intechnique and finance, to help enterprises and disabled workersexperience a proper working environment, he added.-VNA
