Honoring exemplary grassroots mediators

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of November 7, the People's Committee of Nghe An province held the first conference to honor outstanding grassroots mediators and launched the writing contest "Learning about the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".

Attending the conference were leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors; leaders of the People's Committees and Justice Departments of districts, cities and towns and more than 200 typical grassroots mediators in the whole province. Comrade Le Xuan Dai - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and directed the conference.

Conference overview

Conference Presidium

In recent years, grassroots mediation activities have affirmed their great role and important significance in social life, contributing to strengthening solidarity in the community, promoting national cultural identity, promptly preventing violations of the law, ensuring political stability and social security. Thanks to mediation work, the situation of prolonged complaints and denunciations, which go beyond the level of authority, has significantly decreased. Grassroots mediation work is also a form of propaganda to popularize and educate the people about the law.

Currently, the province has 5,092 mediation teams with 36,525 mediators. Of these, 5,428 mediators have legal qualifications, accounting for 14.86%. Since 2009, the mediation teams have received 37,406 cases, of which 30,178 cases were successfully mediated, accounting for 80.67%. In the first 6 months of 2014 alone, the mediation teams have received 16,271 cases, of which 12,431 cases were successfully mediated, reaching 76.39%. The cases mainly revolve around civil matters, marriage and family, land disputes, property, etc.

Mr. Duong Huu Dung, Deputy Director of the Department of Justice, presented a report on grassroots mediation work in the period 2009-2014.

At the conference, delegates listened to presentations by outstanding mediators, presenting the results, experiences as well as difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process. Notably, the capacity and qualifications of mediators are still limited; disputes are increasingly diverse and complicated; funding for mediation teams and training for grassroots mediators is not commensurate, thus not encouraging mediation activities at the local level; the attention and direction of some Party committees and local authorities are not appropriate.

Delegates from Nghia Dan presented their papers at the workshop.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Le Xuan Dai once again affirmed the role and significance of mediation work for the political situation, social stability of the province, and connecting the lives of the community. He acknowledged and praised the contributions of grassroots mediators in the past time, and at the same time hoped that grassroots mediators would continue to promote the achieved results, continue to make more efforts so that mediation work at the grassroots level would be effective, contributing to serving the task of socio-economic development and ensuring order and security in the locality.

Comrade Le Xuan Dai, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the conference.

On this occasion, the Provincial People's Committee awarded certificates of merit to 21 outstanding mediators. The Department of Justice awarded certificates of merit to 62 outstanding grassroots mediators. In response to the Law Day (November 9), at the conference, the Provincial People's Committee launched a writing contest "Learning about the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".

Comrade Le Xuan Dai awarded certificates of merit to 21 outstanding grassroots mediators.

The Department of Justice leaders awarded certificates of merit to outstanding grassroots mediators.

Pham Bang