ASEAN youngsters seek ways to end gender violence, promote equality
Youth representatives from 10 ASEAN countries, including over 100 Vietnamese youngsters, discussed challenges and solutions to achieving gender equality in ASEAN by 2030 during a dialogue in Hanoi on October 10.
The dialogue in Hanoi on October 10 attracted youth representatives from 10 ASEAN countries (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Youth representatives from 10 ASEAN countries, including over 100Vietnamese youngsters, discussed challenges and solutions to achieving gender equalityin ASEAN by 2030 during a dialogue in Hanoi on October 10.
The wider dialogue closeda five-day training course on the role of youth in ensuring gender equality,which had 24 participants from ASEAN countries, including six from Vietnam.
The course aimed toprovide trainees with information on gender violence, allowing them to becomemore confident in implementing initiatives to promote gender equality and endgender violence in the community.
Nguyen Hai Minh, VicePresident of the Vietnam Youth Federation, said that Vietnam is currently undera “golden demographic period”, with one third of the population aged between 15and 24 years.
This is the ideal timeto change the values and standards regarding gender and gender equality, hesaid, holding that working with youngsters is a good way to create positivesocial norms, preventing and ending violence against women and girls.
Education, includingnon-official approaches that target youth, is the most effective solution topreventing violence and developing relationships based on mutual respect,stated Minh.
Minh also expressedhis hope that participants will help to form action plans and give effective initiatives,ideas, and measures to strengthen collaboration amongst ASEAN youngsters.
Furthermore, it isnecessary to enhance the engagement of ASEAN youngsters in promoting genderequality, as well as putting an end to violence against women and girls in thefuture, he added.
Elisa Fernandez, headof the UN’s Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Officein Vietnam, said that the 24 course trainees had a chance to discuss the meaningand origin of gender equality, thus seeking ideas to erase gender inequality.
The “change makers” providedtrainees with basic gender equality theories and gave them a chance toimplement their own initiatives, she said. She revealed that 12 of theyoungsters’ projects were chosen by UN Women for financial support during theirimplementation in ASEAN countries. These projects are expected to contribute tocompleting the fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality and femaleempowerment by 2030.–VNA
Gender violence should receive more media coverage to ensure women and children are brave enough to speak up to prevent domestic violence, said Truong Quang Hong, a gender expert from Care International in Vietnam.
Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Thu has received Elisa Fernandez Saenz, head of office at the UN Women in Vietnam, to discuss potential cooperation in the coming time.
Vietnam is paying more and more attention to institutionalising gender equality and women empowerment, said Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh at a plenary session of the second Eurasian Women’s Forum in Saint Petersburg of Russia on September 20.
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The programmes have brought about positive changes to rural infrastructure, comprehensively improved the material and spiritual lives of farmers, and contributed to Vietnam's economic restructuring, said PM Pham Minh Chinh.
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The dialogue in Hanoi on October 10 attracted youth representatives from 10 ASEAN countries (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) 
