In 2025, implementing the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas, the Lac Son District Justice Department organized 24 conferences to disseminate and disseminate legal knowledge in 24 communes and towns. The conferences attracted the participation of about 3,600 delegates, including officials, prestigious people and local people.
The propaganda content focuses on laws and policies close to life such as: Law on Marriage and Family, Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence, Law on Gender Equality, Law on Democracy at the Grassroots Level, Law on Information Access, Penal Code... In particular, topics related to ethnic policies, poverty reduction and the rights and obligations of people are deeply integrated, contributing to changing the awareness and behavior in ethnic minority communities.
In addition, the Department of Justice also organized 06 media exchange programs to stage in the communes: Xuat Hoa, Thuong Coc, Quyet Thang, Yen Phu, Tan Lap and Vu Ban town. These communication sessions attracted more than 2,000 participants, not only spreading legal content but also creating an environment for closed and participatory community activities, where the law is "told" through laughter and music, by close responses and everyday situations.
Along with the propaganda content, the system of institutions serving the dissemination and education of the law (PBGDPL) in Lac Son has also been strengthened in a synchronous direction and spread to the grassroots. By the end of 2024, the whole district had 254 hamlet-level law bookcases, nearly 600 grassroots mediators, and 100% of communes and towns had judicial officers trained annually.
The effectiveness is not only shown in numbers, but is most obvious through changes in people's behavior and awareness. Thanks to timely dissemination, many households have resolved land disputes and chosen to resolve them through mediators and local authorities. There are many cases where people in remote areas have been lured into loan packages of unknown origin, now they know how to protect themselves against black credit, and refuse forms of non-cks interest- rate lending.
Also from mobile propaganda sessions, many people have understood that not registering household registration and household registration on time not only causes difficulties when going to see a doctor or study for children but also affects social security support policies. As a result, the rate of self-reporting and adjusting population information in communes such as Tan Lap, Xuat Hoa, Quyet Thang, etc. has increased significantly, contributing to cleaning up population data and improving management efficiency at the grassroots level.
It is no coincidence that the dissemination and education of the law is placed in a separate project under the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas. In areas like Lac Son, where travel conditions are still difficult, community practices still strongly influence personal behavior, so letting people understand and follow the law is the premise for successfully implementing all other policies, from poverty reduction to building new rural areas.
"We clearly identify that legal propaganda cannot be based on one-sided reading - writing - teaching. Each community activity session, each media stage must truly be a space for discussion, removing obstacles and approaching policies in the most understandable way, closest to people's lives. When people in the highlands know how to look up the law, know how to refuse black credit traps, and know how to proactively declare civil status, that is the time when the law truly comes into life" - Ms. Bui Thi Ha, Head of the Department of Justice of Lac Son district emphasized.
