Human Rights Training in Vietnam

In November 1997, the Vietnamese Research Centre for Human Rights (VRCHR) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), entered into an agreement for a project of joint cooperation on human rights in order to strengthen the capacity of the VRCHR (which was established in 1994) and bring human rights awareness to public servantsn . At the time, the concept of international human rights standards was just being introduced to Vietnam, where the people are now enjoying more rights as well as a higher standard of living