US advocates the disabled's rights in Vietnam
(VOV) - On December 11, the Vietnam Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation to promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Vietnam.
The signatories were MoLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Trong Dam and USAID Vietnam Mission Director Joakim Parker.
To promote the disabled’s rights in the Southeast Asian nation, the USAID will provide technical assistance for the Vietnam Government’s programmes on offering favourable conditions for the target group, revamping related policies and laws, realizing support action plans, and increasing the involvement of the disabled and their organisations in building and monitoring policies and services.
Deputy Minister Dam applauded the Vietnam Government, ministries and localities’s remarkable progress in exercising the rights of people with disabilities, which was marked by the approval of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the recent eighth session of the 13th National Assembly (NA).
He thanked the USAID for its assistance to Vietnam over the past years and expressed his conviction that the two nations will bolster their joint activities to obtain good results from promoting the disabled’s rights in the country.