Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong led a Vietnamese delegation to participate in the high-level segment of the UN Human Right Council’s 28^th session, which opened in Geneva, Switzerland on March 2.

A meeting of the UN

The four-day meeting is the first in a series of activities of the council’s 28th session, including high-level working sessions, dialogues, and seminars, which will take place from March 2-27.

In opening the high-level segment meeting, leaders of the UN and UN Human Right Council underlined the challenges to the protection and promotion of human rights around the globe, especially armed violence, social inequality, and discrimination.

In the following weeks, nearly 90 reports by UN human rights mechanisms will be tabled for consideration. Five meetings will be held to look into the rights of children and people with disabilities, anti-racial discrimination, the building of national policy and technical cooperation.

Nearly 40 draft resolutions on various issues of human rights will be introduced during the session which will run until March 27.

Viet Nam is a member of the UN Human Rights Council in the 2014-2016 tenure. The country has also been re-elected as the co-coordinator of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the inter-governmental body.