Viet Nam Human Rights
Kick off action month for children 2018
27/5/18
The campaign sets to promote the children’s rights to protection, respect and living in a safe and healthy environment in the digital era.
Addressing the ceremony, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, who is also Chairwoman of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children, urged authorities at all levels, parents and teachers to raise their sense of responsibility and strengthen their coordination for the effective enforcement of the Law on Children and related regulations.
She also asked them to work harder to prevent violence against children and together deliver acts of kindness to children from the bottom of their hearts. The good deeds should not be done during the action month but every day and everywhere, she stressed.
In her opening remarks, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha said education about knowledge and skills to protect children for family members, teachers, people who directly work with children and even children themselves is essential for effective child protection.
Ha called for the better cooperation between authorities and state agencies in preventing and handling violence against children and child abuse as well as the provision of intervention for children suffering from violence and abuse.
At the ceremony, the National Fund for Vietnamese Children presented scholarships and gifts to 60 impoverished children to motivate them to overcome difficulties. A delegation from the fund also visited SOS Children’s Village in the provincial capital of Viet Tri and gave gifts to children here later the same day.
During the action month for children in 2018, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will hold a series of events and activities to support children in need. Meanwhile, the National Fund for Vietnamese Children will allocate more than VND14 billion (US$616,000) for activities to support about 5,000 children from difficult backgrounds across the country.
The action month aims to raise public awareness of a wide range of child-related issues through a number of messages, including For children’s safe and healthy living, Safe and healthy summer for children, Summer without child drowning, Listen to children with heart, protect children with actions, Calling 111 to report any acts of violence against children and child abuse, Using social media for the safe and healthy life of children and more.
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children’s opinions should be reflected in child-related policies, and national and local socio-economic plans should incorporate targets concerning child development.
Child-centered models have been operating in localities.
Vietnam needs preventing child abuse, protecting children from injuries, and aiding children of disadvantaged families, especially in remote, border, sea and island areas, in addition to reducing the proportion of children with disabilities and congenital heart disease.
Viet Nam is one of the countries approving the International Convention on the rights of the child from the very beginning.
Viet Nam’s Party and Government has always considered human as the goal as well as the motivation for the cause of national development.
Viet Nam’s government stated that human, including children always is the center of economic – social policies , and to promote and protect human rights in general and children’s rights in particular is an important factor for decent development, and ensuring the success of the country’s renovation.
All the guidelines, policies and Strategies of Vietnam are aiming at the goal: “rich people, strong nation, equitable, democratic and civilized society “, all because of human and dedicate for human.
With respect to children as young citizens, they do not only have full basic human rights to economy, politic, society and culture…etc. but also are happiness of family, country’s future.
Children are deserved to be loved, be concerned, be cared, be educated, be guaranteed full human rights, be respected and believed on ability of opinion contribution in present and future by Party, State and entire society.
Viet Nam is the first Asian country and the second nation in the world has signed and approved international Convention on Children’s right.
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