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	Vietnam Makes Meaningful Contributions at 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

At the General Assembly meeting on October 14, 2025, attended by 190 UN member states eligible to vote, 14 countries were elected to the UNHRC for the 2026-2028 term. These include Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, South Africa, Mauritius, Angola, Estonia, Slovenia, Chile, Ecuador, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Vietnam received 180 votes - the highest among the Asia-Pacific Group - and was the only country from the region serving as a member of the UNHRC for the 2023-2025 term to be re-elected for the 2026-2028 term.

International friends congratulated Vietnam on its re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2026-2028 term.

The election result reflects the confidence and high appreciation of UN member states for Vietnam’s strong commitment and efforts in promoting and protecting human rights, as well as its active contributions and initiatives as a member of the UNHRC during the 2023-2025 term. It also demonstrates the international community’s trust in Vietnam’s open and active foreign policy, its engagement and contributions to multilateral mechanisms, its achievements in international integration, and the recognition of Vietnam’s increasingly consolidated position as an active member and reliable partner for peace, cooperation, and sustainable development.

During its third term as a member of the UNHRC, Vietnam will continue to advance eight priority areas, namely improving the effectiveness of the UNHRC, ensuring human rights in climate change and digital transformation, promoting gender equality, protecting vulnerable groups, the right to health, the right to work, human rights education, and the right to education. Vietnam will continue contributing to the joint efforts of the international community to address shared human rights concerns in the spirit of “Respect and Understanding – Dialogue and Cooperation – All Human Rights for All.”

Vietnam is the only Asia-Pacific country re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council for the 2026–2028 term after serving in the 2023–2025 term.

When running for membership of the UNHRC for the 2026-2028 term, Vietnam also made 12 voluntary commitments in many areas of human rights and will seriously implement these commitments. These commitments are not only linked to initiatives at the UNHRC and other UN and regional human rights mechanisms, but also in the process of implementing recommendations that Vietnam accepts under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle IV or from the Human Rights Convention Committees, of which Vietnam is a member. Vietnam's voluntary commitments are also closely linked to tasks identified as being of strategic importance, requiring breakthroughs to bring the country into a new era of development with the goal of becoming a developed, high-income country by 2045, especially the work of building a rule-of-law state, legal reform, international integration, innovation, and digital transformation.

Vietnam’s term as a member of the UN Human Rights Council for 2026-2028 will commence on January 1, 2026.

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