Prime Minister attends 3rd ASEAN Women Leaders’ Summit
VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday attended and delivered a speech at the 3rd ASEAN Women Leaders’ Summit via videoconference, at an invitation of his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
Under the theme "Strengthening the Care Economy and Resilience towards ASEAN Community Piaya-2025," the Summit highlights the important role, potential and strength of women leaders and all women in ASEAN in building the future of the ASEAN region.
Addressing the event, Prime Minister Pham highlighted the importance of encouraging women in eradicating social prejudice against women and promoting gender equality.
He briefed outcomes of Viet Nam's achievements in gender equality in which 11 out of 20 norms have been fulfilled or even surpassed in the National Strategy on Gender Equality.
He suggested ASEAN member states raise awareness and thinking about women's role and encourage their equal participation in all fields, where women are not only empowered but also fully equipped with skills and knowledge to effectively contribute to the care and self-reliant economy of ASEAN.
The Prime Minister suggested them improve infrastructure, build a system of public health care and health services that are high quality, accessible and affordable, especially in poor, remote and isolated areas.
He called on ASEAN countries to continue to improve institutions and policies, and integrate women-related affairs into socio-economic development plans, to promote gender equality while adapting to rapid population aging as well as climate change.
The Vietnamese Prime Minister stressed the need to increase investment in human resource training and vocational training for workers.
He said ASEAN countries should increase the mobilization of resources from the whole society by attracting private investment and considering private investment as an important factor in efforts to develop the care economy.
Pham also proposed that ASEAN countries strengthen cooperation to protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers, and prevent abuse, exploitation, discrimination and illegal activities, as well as transnational crimes such as cross-border human trafficking.
Taking the floor in Vientiane, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha, briefed the summit about the actual state of the care economy in Viet Nam, challenges of social prejudice against women's role, limitations in care service providers, especially in rural and remote areas, and limitations in social security coverage for care workers, leading to gender and income inequality./.
