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CEDAW and the Law:
In a matrix on ‘Major Policies and Measures to Achieve the Goals and Target of the
SEDP 2006-2010’, the policies/actions relating to gender equality identified are: (a) implement
the ‘National Strategy for Advancement of Women’; (b) improve awareness of gender issues;
(c) complete policies and regulations for female labourers, implement training and training for
female officials; (c) implement CEDAW; (d) implement measures to ensure women’s equitable
access to health care, education, employment, etc.; (e) focus on investment in family-serving
technologies; (f) encourage women’s participation in social and economic activities. The following
expected results are listed: (a) better access to educational and health-care services;
(b) jobs provided to women account for 50 percent of total employment created; (c) eradicate
illiteracy for all women aged under 40 years; (d) women enjoy equality in heath care, culture,
society and employment; (e) increase by 3-5 percent the number of women working in administrative
agencies, People’s Councils at all levels, the National Assembly, and elected bodies
at all levels.
The CPRGS is an action plan for realizing economic growth and poverty reduction
objectives and is closely linked to the SEDS. It reflects three broad objectives: (a) completing
the transition to a market economy; (b) enhancing equitable, socially inclusive and sustainable
development; and (c) adopting a modern public administration, legal and governance system.
One of the major policies and measures to ensure sustainable growth and poverty reduction
under the CPRGS is to narrow the social development gap, including through realizing gender
equity and the advancement of women. The CPRGS has identified targets on gender
equality. 213 It has also close to 30 measures to implement gender equality, including land titling,
training, overcoming gender stereotypes in textbooks, reproductive health care and family
planning.
The CPRGS also incorporates the Viet Nam Development Goals (VDGs), which specify
the following goals: (a) reduce gender imbalance at primary and secondary education levels
in areas with large ethnic minority groups; (b) increase the number of women in elective
bodies at all levels; (c) increase the participation of women in agencies and sectors at all levels
by an additional 3-5 percent in the next 10 years; (d) execute regulations on requiring that
the names of both husband and wife appear on all LUCs by 2005; (e) reduce the vulnerability
of women to domestic violence; (f) reduce maternal mortality by 60 per 100,000 live births,
paying special attention to difficult areas; and (g) improve mother’s postpartum health.
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The CPRGS targets on gender equality, empowering women and ensuring children’s rights include:
Improve the quality of women’s spiritual and material lives; improve the professional skills for women. Create conditions
for women to participate in and benefit fully and equally from all aspects of life: political, economic, cultural and
social. Increase the participation of women in agencies, sectors and enterprises at all levels by more than 3-5 percent
in the next 10 years.
Ensure the rights of women to benefit from household assets by allowing them to register as co-owner of assets;
ensure that the names of both husband and wife appear on LUCs before 2005.
Encourage families to build cultured families based on enhancing the role of women as a master in the family; adopt
necessary measures to help women alleviate their burden in domestic work (preparation of food/meals for families,
transport, child care, etc.). Reduce domestic violence towards women and female children at family and society levels.
Create favourable conditions for the implementation of policies on child care and protection, enforcement of children’s
rights to ensure that children are able to live in a safe and healthy environment, to develop harmoniously in
terms of physical strength, intellect and ethics, and that orphans and disabled children who live under difficult situation
are provided with opportunities for study and entertainment.
Review of key legal documents and compliance with CEDAW