H.E. Sara Valdes Bolaño, Ambassador of Mexico to Vietnam, and Mr. Kamal Malhotra, U.N. Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, are the Co-Chairs of the Informal Ambassadors and Heads of Agencies Group on Gender Policy Coordination.
In March 2019 a wave of public outrage about an incident of sexual violence in the public sphere spread on social media. A young woman was cornered in an elevator by a man unfamiliar to her and forcibly kissed.