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Vietnam

Regional group:

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Council Bureau membership:	–
Coordinator of regional group:	–
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Working Group on Situations (2016)
OHCHR presence:	– No field presence
NHRI accreditation status:	–

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Human rights and climate change.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2014, Viet Nam has (in the absence of consensus) tended to vote against or abstain on resolutions tabled under item 4 (situations that require the Council's attention). For country-specific resolutions under item 2, it has joined consensus or voted against the resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka, while voting in favour of resolutions on the composition of the staff of the OHCHR. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Viet Nam has always voted in favour or joined consensus. On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Viet Nam has joined consensus on all resolutions except for three that were voted on during the period of its membership: on cooperation with Ukraine (Viet Nam abstained on all three occasions). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Viet Nam has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has nearly always voted in favour. Notwithstanding, Viet Nam voted against a 2014 resolution on peaceful protests, and abstained during voting on inter alia: the death penalty; human rights, democracy and the rule of law; and civil society space. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Viet Nam has either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, all adopted texts.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 78

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 50

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 96

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on executions, 2006

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

CEDAW
4 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2009, 2014, 2019)

Mid-term report

Level of delegation

Ministry

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 38 / 192

2^nd cycle: 96 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2023)?

YES

Response to allegations from government concerned?
YES

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 12

Viet Nam tabled voluntary pledges and commitments in support for its candidacy for membership for the period 2014-2016 on 27 August 2013. It made a number of concrete pledges and commitments at both international and national levels.

At national level, Viet Nam pledged to: improve its legal and judicial systems; strengthen its national institutional framework for human rights, including by establishing an NHRI; improve social security, particularly for vulnerable groups; promote human rights education and training; implement accepted UPR recommendations; strengthen grass-roots democracy, and complete ratification of CRPD / consider ratification of CAT.

Internationally, Viet Nam committed to: participating in the work of the Council; cooperating with UN human rights mechanisms particularly Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures; accepting requests for Special Procedures country visits, and supporting intergovernmental consultations on improving human rights Treaty Bodies.

An analysis of steps taken by Viet nam in fulfilment of its international level pledges shows that Viet Nam has indeed ratified the CRPD and CAT (in 2015). Individually, Viet Nam has participated in around 20% of Council debates and deliberations. Regarding cooperation with Special Procedures, Viet Nam has accepted and completed around 50% of all visit requests, although it has responded to almost 90% of the communications received. Regarding cooperation with Treaty Bodies, Viet Nam is Party to most of the core conventions; it tends to submit late its periodic reports and is yet to present two reports: CEDAW and CESCR.

Vietnam

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 38 / 192

2nd cycle: 96 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 12

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 38 / 192

2^nd cycle: 96 / 192