Action month for children calls for efforts in child abuse combat
Activities of the Action Month for Children 2022 this year will call for joint efforts in child protection and child abuse prevention and combat, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has announced.
Ethnic children in Vietnam (Photo: laodongthudo.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Activities o💝f the Action Month forChildren 2022 this year will call for joint efforts in child protect༒ion and childabuse prevention and combat, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs (MoLISA) has announced.
The activities will take place throughout June annually to enhance the sense of responsibility among sectors and relevant organisations in childprotection and to ensure a safe summer for kids. In the framework of the action month, a launch ceremony isslated around May 27 to June 1, together with an event responding to the WorldDay Against Child Labour on June 12. The People’s Committees of localities nationwide are askedto build plans for activities of the action month suitable to theirconditions, and to bolster communication work to raise awareness and skills inchild protection. Measures to fight sexual abuse and violence against childrenin family as well as locations receiving tipoffs and offering shelters for children,and helpline 111, an emergency telephone number for child protection, must bepopularised. Localities are also required to regularly check so as to detect in a timely manner high-risk locations prone to child-related accidents and to call on organisationsand individuals to support victims of abuse, orphans and poor, ethnic and pandemic-hitchildren. According to the MoLISA’s report, in 2021, the Ministry ofPublic Security detected 1,914 child abuse cases nationwide, an annual decreaseof 31 cases. However, a number of severe cases that outraged thepublic took place. Meanwhile, child protection, particularly against domesticviolence, had yet to receive adequate attention. A report by the helpline saidchildren abused by their relatives accounted for the lion’s share of the totalcases last year, at 72.84 percent, which represented an annual increase of 5.3percent./.
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Ethnic children in Vietnam (Photo: laodongthudo.vn) 
