Nghe An Newspaper won the B prize and the Excellent Collective prize of the National Press Award on Gender Equality 2024

Nghe An Newspaper is honored to have a work winning the B prize and is one of three units awarded the Excellent Collective prize by the Organizing Committee.

Also attending the event were representatives of the leaders of the Press and Publishing Department, Central Propaganda Department; Press Department, Department of Foreign Information, Ministry of Information and Communications; Department of Gender Equality (Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs); Department of Internal Political Security (Ministry of Public Security); Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam; representatives of embassies: US Ambassador, New Zealand Ambassador and representatives of embassies (UK, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Germany); more than 50 journalists and reporters from central and local press and television agencies.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Huong - Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union emphasized: The National Press Award on Gender Equality 2024 was held for the first time in response to the Month of Action for Gender Equality and Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence; commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and 10 years of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

At the same time, this is also one of the activities within the strategic partnership framework of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union and UN Women to promote a favorable environment for gender equality, women's empowerment and ending gender-based violence against women and girls in Vietnam.

Since its official launch on November 1, 2024, the National Press Award on Gender Equality has created a ripple effect on press and media agencies nationwide and received nearly370The entries are diverse in different forms from print and electronic newspapers to radio and television works revolving around three key topics: Promoting prevention and combating gender-based violence, promoting gender equality in digital transformation and promoting gender equality in economic development.

Of these, electronic and printed newspapers accounted for the highest number with 259 works, followed by television with 70 works and radio with 32 works, with more than 60% of entries focusing on the topic of preventing and combating gender-based violence.

Each work conveys meaningful messages about gender equality, contributing to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and at the same time, deeply affirming the role of the press and media in building a fair and progressive society, a safe environment for women and children.

At the Award Ceremony, the Organizing Committee awarded prizes to 24 best press works by authors/groups of authors in 04 categories: print, electronic, radio and television.

Of which, 4 A prizes were awarded to the works: "Ia Mo Memory - The Road to the "Birth Station" is Near" by author Nguyen Thi Dieu Hien - Ho Chi Minh City Women's Newspaper in the print category; "Promoting Sustainable Gender Equality" by author Nguyen Viet Duc - Domestic News Editorial Board (Vietnam News Agency) in the electronic category; "The Pain of Child Marriage in the Highlands: Bad Customs or Ignorance of the Law" by author Le Thi Hang - News Department (VOV) in the radio category and the work "My grandmother, my mother, my sisters" by author Chu Duong Thuy Anh - Documentary Center (Vietnam Television) in the television category.

There are 4 works honored to be awarded B prize including: Special topic“Developing female party members of ethnic minorities: Starting from villages”by author Chu Thi Khanh Ly - Nghe An Newspaper (electronic newspaper genre); work "Children are not brides" by author Bien Thi Luan - Ha Giang Newspaper (print newspaper genre); work "Overcoming the fence" by author Khuong Thi Nguyet - Son La Radio and Television Station (radio genre) and work "Women for peace and security" by a group of authors from the Foreign Television Department, Military Radio and Television Center (television genre).

In addition, the Organizing Committee also awarded 8 Consolation prizes; 8 C prizes for works by authors and groups of authors in 4 types of journalism: television, radio, print and electronic newspapers.

In addition to 1 work winning the B prize in the electronic newspaper category, Nghe An Newspaper is also 1 of 3 press and media agencies awarded the Excellent Collective prize by the Organizing Committee for having many quality works participating in the competition.