Viet Nam Human Rights
Action month for children
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 31 launched the Action Month for Children 2022 to promote child care and protection, and mobilise social resources for the work.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (5th from L) attends the launching ceremony of the ction Month for Children 2022, Ha Noi, May 31, 2022
Under the motto “Joining hands to care for, educate and protect children,” the action month for children targets to engage socio-political organisations, social organisations, families and communities in the care, education and protection of children.
The People’s Committees of localities nationwide were asked to build plans for activities of the action month suitable to their conditions, and to bolster communication work to raise awareness and skills in child protection.
Measures to fight sexual abuse and violence against children in family and locations receiving tipoffs and offering shelters for children, and helpline 111, an emergency telephone number for child protection, must be popularised.
Localities were also required to regularly check to detect in a timely manner high-risk locations prone to child-related accidents and to call on organisations and individuals to support victims of abuse, orphans and poor, ethnic and pandemic-hit children.
Always act for children
Addressing the launching ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called for constant actions to protect children.
Despite remarkable achievements in child care and protection, there remain many problems related to abuse and violence against children, child drowning, suicides, and poverty.
The Government chief underlined three main pillars of children’s lives namely family, school and society, additing that it is necessary to issue a strategy for children, with solutions to improve children’s health and educate them.
He also stressed the necessity to fully enforce the Law on Children and other legal documents on child care, education and protection.
The Government leader took the occasion to call on every individual in the community and society as a whole to act for children, to ensure that children are the first to benefit from socio-economic development in the country.
The same day, the Prime Minister came to visit and present gifts for child patients at the Viet Nam National Children's Hospital in which he asked the hospital to join hands with other medical facilities and the Health Ministry to thoroughly analyze the pandemic’s impacts on children’s physical and psychological health.
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) reported that in 2021, as many as 1,914 cases of child abuses were detected nationwide, an annual decrease of 31 cases.
Meanwhile, child protection, particularly against domestic violence, had yet to receive adequate attention. A report by the helpline said children abused by their relatives accounted for the lion’s share of the total cases last year, at 72.84 percent, which represented an annual increase of 5.3 percent./.
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Protection, care and education of children constitute a moral tradition of the Vietnamese people as well as a principle underpinning the line of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the laws of the Vietnamese State.
Great achievements have been made in the cause of protection, care and education of children.
Under the regime of a democratic republic, the Vietnamese State has promulgated many policies and laws directly or indirectly relating to children
Vietnam was the second country in the world and the first in Asia to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on February 20, 1990.
Many programs for children care, protection and education have been implemented throughout the country.
Children’s participation has been encouraged through children’ rights forums, clubs of child reporters, children-to-children activities and in the mass media.
Legal liability measures have become more stringent against violations of children’s rights.
Children are protected, cared for and protected by families, the State and society.
The State and society shall create conditions for children with disabilities to have general education and learn suitable jobs. The State and society shall facilitate gifted pupils to learn and develop their talents.
The responsibilities of society, families, mass organizations and local authorities for protecting, caring for and educating children are also provided in a separate chapter to ensure that children can enjoy their 10 fundamental rights.
For the best interests of children
Millions of children in particularly difficult circumstances have been protected and their living conditions have been improved.
There remains a big gap between legal provisions on children and their actual enforcement.
Children, communities and families are empowered to prevent and address child labour
UNICEF is utilizing its expertise and experience across the full spectrum of children’s rights to ensure “no child is left behind” in Viet Nam.
Efforts to reduce monetary poverty have been successful, however, it has not led to a decrease in vulnerabilities.
Ensuring that “no child is left behind” requires breakthrough solutions to fast-track progress towards inclusive and sustainable development for all.
We are working to strengthen the ability of elected bodies to make laws and oversee implementation of children’s rights.
In supporting greater coordination across government on children’s rights, elected bodies and the government are supported to more effectively implement such rights.
Despite advances in socio-economic development across communities in Viet Nam, a significant number of families, women and children have been left behind.
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