The participation and the implementation of recommendations of Vietnam in the third cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

Abstract

As an active and responsible member of the international community,  in recent years, Vietnam has always showed its seriourness and continuous efforts to participate in the mechanisms of protecting human rights including the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations. Having gone through the two cycles of the UPR, the Vietnam’s implementation of  recommendations varies in each cycle due to the impacts of  differennt factors which are not only the internally subjective conditions and circumtances but also the newly objective factors and the changes in regional and international circumtances in different points of time. In the context that Vietnam has just completed the report of the third cycle of the UPR, the paper highlights the preliminary information on the process of participating in the UPR and implementing the recommendations in the last two cycles; it summarises the Vietnam’s process of preparing, participating in, and receiving  the recommendations in the third cycle of the UPR; and it  assesses the difficulties and  points  out the causes of the shortcomings in implementing those recommendations and offers the directions for Vietnam to implement the recommendations in the third cycle of the UPR.