Under the United Nations Development Programme (Projects 42690 and 58492), implemented during 2012–2013

Number of pages: 122
Authors: Dang Hoang Giang, Le Thi Nam Huong, Nguyen Duc Lam, Pierre F. Landry, Dau Anh Tuan, Nguyen Hung Quang
Published Year: 2013

Abstract:
Fairness and equality are among the fundamental rights of citizens as stipulated in the Constitution 1992 and further reaffirmed in the Constitution 2013. However, the current legal system lacks coherence and consistency in concretizing the right to fairness and equality as set out in these constitutional documents.

To assess the current state of the legal framework for ensuring citizens’ rights to fairness and equality, in service of the Party and State’s judicial reform strategy, the Justice index: Assessment of Distributive Justice and Equality from a Citizen-based Survey in 2012 was developed. This report introduces a new approach to evaluating the progress of ongoing legal and judicial reform. It presents Viet Nam’s first large-scale empirical Justice Index in 2012, aimed at building a quantitative tool that can convey the public’s views and assessments of how effectively state institutions ensure justice and fundamental rights.

The report reviews and clarifies four main issues:
– The conceptual framework for building the Justice Index
– The survey methodology
– Actual conditions of fairness and equality
– The 2012 Justice Index

For the 2012 Justice Index, the report is structured around five thematic pillars related to law enforcement and justice delivery:
(i) Access,
(ii) Fairness,
(iii) Integrity,
(iv) Trust and Effectiveness,
(v) Protection of Fundamental Rights.

Suggested citation: VLA_UNDP (Projects 42690 and 58492), Justice index: Assessment of Distributive Justice and Equality from a Citizen-based Survey in 2012, 2013. Available at:
https://www.undp.org/vietnam/publications/justice-index-assessment-distributive-justice-and-equality-citizen-based-survey-2012