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Gender equality is essential not only to Vietnam but the world as well. Since late 20th century, the women movement and international democratic movement have made important progress, which is gradually improving the livelihood of women around the world, especially in developing places. In their activities, the construction of relevant international conventions and domestic legal regulations are the fundamental. The paper analyses the context and main ideas of the 'Convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women -CEDAW" and its significance to Vietnam. Based on existing regulations and incorporating CEDAW regulations, the National Assembly(the Legislative) ratified two new laws in 2006 and 2007, namely Gender Equality Law and the Law on the Prevention of family violence in Nov. 2006 and Nov. 2007 respectively. Presented in the paper is an analysis of their context and main ideas, including a comparison with Hong Duc Law in 15th century and Gia Long Law in 18th century as regarding gender issue. According to the paper, there exists a dialectic relationship between domestic law and international law on gender issue in the globalized world. The paper aims at increasing awareness of the issue on the world level and domestic level, the inevitability of gender discrimination and the cause of empowering women with human rights, CEDAW principles have been incorporated into national policies and have since rendered big successes such as a much higher GDI (Gender Developement Index)than other countries of higher development level. The paper will display enforcement challenges of the two laws and the activeness 0f government, civil society and international organizations in bringing the laws into everyday life