Protecting Biodiversity: Focus on concrete actions - This year’s international day for Biological Diversity to celebrate “Water and Biodiversity” recognizes the strong links between water security...

Ha Noi, 14 May 2013 – The second annual results of an innovative governance survey released today warn that bribery remains widespread in the public sector, and that many citizens perceive bribery...

Ha Noi, 22 April - Viet Nam’s labour market will see some significant changes when the amended Labour Code takes effect in May, recognizing the practice of labour dispatch, where workers are...

Ha Noi, 8 May (ILO News) – The world youth unemployment rate this year is close to its crisis peak and is not expected to decline before 2018, according to a new ILO report. Unemployment rate...

As published in Vietnam+ on 9 April 2013

With a view to contributing further to the joint efforts of the UN and the international community in promoting and protecting human rights on the...

An op-ed by Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam as published in Viet Nam Net on 5 April 2013.

I’m sure you can visualize the agony of a runner who enters the last lap of a race...

As published in TrustLaw on 20 December 2012

BANGKOK (TrustLaw) - Fish farmer Doan Van Vuon became something of a folk hero earlier this year when he used homemade landmines and guns to stop...

An op-ed by Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam as published in Viet Week on 7 December 2012.

On 9 December, International Anti-Corruption Day is marked around the world and...