Vietnam objects to UN human rights experts’ press release
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam strongly rejects a March 20 press release by several UN human rights experts, says Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, Head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO, and other international organizations in Geneva.
 Ambassador Duong Chi Dung (left), Head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO, and other international organizations in Geneva (Photo: VNA) |
Ambassador Dung said dialogues between the government and related individuals and organizations and between the government and human rights mechanisms are fundamental in the promotion and protection of human rights. He said the Vietnamese government regrets the lack of a constructive attitude on the part of those experts.
In November, the Research Center for Gender, Family, and Environment in Development (CGFED) in Hanoi and Sweden's IPEN, released a report stating that female laborers working in Samsung factories in Vietnam suffered adverse health impacts associated with inappropriate working conditions.
Samsung rejected the report’s content, which was based on interviews with just 45 of more than 100,000 Samsung workers, and raised questions about the report's objectivity and methodology.