Vietnam praised for fighting violence against women, children
Vietnam has made great achievements in promoting gender equality and fighting violence against women and children, an official from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has said.
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has made great achievementsin promoting gender equality and fighting violence against women andchildren, an official from the Korea International CooperationAgency (KOICA) has said.
KOICA Country Vice Director in Vietnam Rah Mi-hye made the affirmation at aconference to review the implementation of a communication campaign on genderequality and gender-based violence prevention in Hanoi on December 19.
She also highly appreciated the Vietnamese Government’s move to issue a Law on GenderEquality and a national strategy on gender equality.
The prevention of gender-based violence has received strong response from ministries,sectors, localities and social organizations in Vietnam, she said.
KOICA will continue to join hands with Vietnam in carrying out activities toprotect rights of women and girls, thus further promoting cooperation betweenthe two countries, the official stressed.
In 2016, the Vietnamese Government officially assigned the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) to coordinate with other ministries,sectors and localities to implement an action month for gender equality andgender-based violence prevention (November 15 - December 15).
The action month has been supported by many international and social organisations,and achieved significant results.
According to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le VanThanh, the programme has helped raise public awareness of the issue, contributingto effectively fighting violence against women and girls,and reducing the number of relevant cases./.
More than 30 members of the Vietnam Volunteer Centre (VVC) are participating in a training course on how to mobilise young men to prevent violence against women and girls through social media.
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has called on relevant ministries and agencies to make concerted efforts to minimise violence against women and girls, which is relatively common in Vietnamese society.
The women’s union of Da Nang and UN Women jointly launched a Asia-Pacific regional project on enhancing measures to end violence against women and girls in the central city on August 25.
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At the conference (Source: VNA) 
