The present study aims at informing the government of Viet Nam about National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) as a key element of human rights protection and promotion at the national level. In 2010, the author of the present study submitted a study to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam on the subject of “National Human Rights Institutions – models, programs, challenges, solutions”. This study is the direct continuation: While the text of 2010 focused on models of NHRIs and ended with a set of recommendations for the preparation and the early years of a NHRI, today, requirements have slightly changed: Some basic ideas of an appropriate and useful human rights institution have been formed in Viet Nam.