05 things you should know about legal popularization and education in Vietnam

05 things you should know about legal popularization and education in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. Principles of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

According to Article 5 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012, there are 05 principles of legal popularization and education as follows:

- Accuracy, sufficiency, clearness, intelligibleness, practical.

- Being timely, regularly, having focus of interest or main point

- Making variety forms of legal popularization and education, being suitable with demand, age group, qualification of subjects being popularized, educated on law and and being suitable with the good traditional, customs and habits of national.

- Linking execution of law, execution of duties about social-economical development, assurance of defense and security of national and localities and life each day of people.

- Closely coordination between agencies, organizations, families and society.

2. Content of legal popularization and education

Specifically, in Article 10 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012, the content of legal popularization and education include:

- Provisions of constitution, and legal law, which the main content is provisions of laws on civil, crime, administration, marriage and family, gender equality, land, construction, environment protection, labor, education, medicine, National defense and security, transport, basic rights and obligations of citizens, powers and duties of state agencies, cadres, officers, newly promulgated legal documents.

- The International treaties which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is members, international agreements.

- The consciousness on legal respect and legal compliance, consciousness on law protection, interest of legal compliance, pattern of good persons, good works in legal implementation.

3. Form of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

 Form of legal popularization and education in Vietnam specified in Article 11 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012, specifically as follows:

- The press meeting, press releases.

- Popularizing law directly; consulting, guiding of legal studying; supplying information, documents on law.

- Via means of mass media, loudspeakers, internet, panels, posters, agitation drawings; published in the Official Gazettes; publishing legal information on the website; posting in head office, on notice board of agencies, Organizations, residential areas.

- Organizing the law-studying competitions.

- Through adjudicating work, handling administrative violations, receiving citizens, settlement complaints, denunciation of citizens and other activities of agencies in the state machine; through operation of legal assistance, mediation at grassroots.

- Integrating in activities of culture, literature, activities of policy organizations ands unions, clubs, law bookcases and other cultural institutions at grassroots.

- Through programs on legal educations in educational facilities of national education system.

- Other forms of legal popularization and education being suitable with each specific object that competent agencies, organizations and individuals may apply to ensure legal popularization and education bring effectiveness.

4. Policy of the State on legal popularization and education in Vietnam

The policy of the State on legal popularization and education are prescribed as follows:

- Legal popularization and education is duty of entire the policy system, in which the State takes the leading role.

- The State shall ensure necessary resources for task about law popularization and education.

- Implementing socialization in legal popularization and education; commending and rewarding agencies, organizations and individuals actively contributing to law popularization and education.

- Legal education in educational facilities of national educational system are integrated in educational program of educational levels and training qualifications; being a content in educational program of lower secondary education, upper secondary education, Professional education and higher education.

(Article 3 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

5. Prohibited acts regarding law popularization and education in Vietnam

Individuals and organizations are prohibited from performing the following acts on law dissemination and education:

- Wrongly communication of or criticizing with respect to the popularized content of laws; not supplying information, documents as prescribed by law; supplying information, documents with the content that is incorrect with truth, contrary to law, social ethics, national good tradition.

- Abusing legal popularization and education to distort the guidelines, lines of the Party, law of the State; propagating the hostile policy, sowing division with the great national unity; infringing lawful rights and interests of agencies, organizations and individuals.

- Hindering implementation of rights being informed, studying, learning law of citizens, operation of legal popularization and education of agencies, organizations and individuals.

- Abusing implementation of rights being informed, studying, learning law to hinder normal operation of legal popularization and education of agencies, organizations and individuals, causing social disorder and unsafety.

(Article 9 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

Thanh Rin

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