The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) hasannounced the creation of a national action month on gender violenceprevention and control, which will last from November 15 to December 16each year.
The month will be held under the National Project onGender Violence Prevention and Control, MOLISA said at a conference inHanoi on June 30.
The project aims to raise people's awarenesson the issue, decrease the number of victims of gender violence andimprove the effectiveness of services for these crimes, said Pham NgocTien, Director of the Gender Equality Department under MOLISA.
Victimsof gender violence have 35 percent lower incomes than those who haven'texperienced gender violence, according to the UN in Vietnam.
Under the project, a national hotline will be set up to help and provide consultations for victims.
Short-termand long-term training courses will be held for workers specialising ingender violence prevention and control. The training will be organisedby MOLISA, the Vietnam Women's Union and the Ministry of Culture, Sportsand Tourism. At least eight offices supplying gender violence serviceswill be set up across the country. The offices will act as temporaryresidences for victims of domestic violence.
Tien said MOLISAwould review the project annually, making necessary changes and addingnew services. It would also hand out leaflets with information ondomestic violence, in Vietnamese and ethnic minority languages.
Accordingto the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women released in2013 by the General Statistics Office, 32 percent of married womenreported having been victims of physical violence, sexual violence orboth by their husbands.
However, nearly 50 percent of the womensaid they did not tell anyone about the violence, and 87 percent did notseek any support from the Government or other organisations.
Ministryof Public Security’s statistics showed that between 2012 and March2013, 550 human trafficking cases were discovered with 1,080 femalevictims.
More than 5,900 cases of sexual abuse of women and girls were discovered in the country between 2008 and 2012.-VNA
The month will be held under the National Project onGender Violence Prevention and Control, MOLISA said at a conference inHanoi on June 30.
The project aims to raise people's awarenesson the issue, decrease the number of victims of gender violence andimprove the effectiveness of services for these crimes, said Pham NgocTien, Director of the Gender Equality Department under MOLISA.
Victimsof gender violence have 35 percent lower incomes than those who haven'texperienced gender violence, according to the UN in Vietnam.
Under the project, a national hotline will be set up to help and provide consultations for victims.
Short-termand long-term training courses will be held for workers specialising ingender violence prevention and control. The training will be organisedby MOLISA, the Vietnam Women's Union and the Ministry of Culture, Sportsand Tourism. At least eight offices supplying gender violence serviceswill be set up across the country. The offices will act as temporaryresidences for victims of domestic violence.
Tien said MOLISAwould review the project annually, making necessary changes and addingnew services. It would also hand out leaflets with information ondomestic violence, in Vietnamese and ethnic minority languages.
Accordingto the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women released in2013 by the General Statistics Office, 32 percent of married womenreported having been victims of physical violence, sexual violence orboth by their husbands.
However, nearly 50 percent of the womensaid they did not tell anyone about the violence, and 87 percent did notseek any support from the Government or other organisations.
Ministryof Public Security’s statistics showed that between 2012 and March2013, 550 human trafficking cases were discovered with 1,080 femalevictims.
More than 5,900 cases of sexual abuse of women and girls were discovered in the country between 2008 and 2012.-VNA
