A project on development of a national response to domestic violence was
signed and launched in Hanoi on August 24 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Addressing the event, Deputy
Minister Le Khanh Hai highly valued effective help from the international
community, including UN agencies, especially UNFPA with efforts on preventing
and fighting domestic violence in Vietnam.
He stressed that Vietnam ’s
policies on fighting against domestic violence are clearly manifested in legal
documents such as the Labour Code, the Civil Code and the laws on marriage and
family, child protection and care, gender equality, particularly the law on
preventing and fighting domestic violence.
The country has also issued a
family development strategy to 2020 with a vision for 2030, and a national
action plan on preventing and fighting domestic violence is on the pipeline.
Acting chief representative of
UNFPA in Vietnam Man deep K. O’Brien stressed the UN agency’s commitment to
continuing close cooperation with the Vietnamese Government, development
partners and civil social organisations for the advancement of women and
promotion of gender equality.
According to the UN official,
violence regarding gender is considered as a key indicator in the fulfilment of
the UN Millennium Development Goal on gender equality in Vietnam . Therefore,
the UNFPA has prioritised the issue in an UN plan for the 2012-2016, she said.
The project on developing a
national response to domestic violence is carried out from August 2012 to
December 2016 at an estimated cost of US$1.846 million, by the Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism and UNFPA.
VNA
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