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UNFPA hands over 6,903 dignity kits to local women

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently handed over 6,903 dignity kits to the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) in support of women and girls at risk of violence in five central provinces hit by flooding - Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Tri, Quang Ngai, Nghe An, and Thanh Hoa.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recentlyhanded over 6,903 dignity kits to the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers’Union (VFU) in support of women and girls at risk of violence in five centralprovinces hit by flooding - Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Tri, Quang Ngai, Nghe An, andThanh Hoa. 


The kits were funded by the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.

Women and girls in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, andQuang Nam received similar kits earlier.

More than 12,400 women from eight central provinces have received such kitsso far.

Speaking at the ceremony, UNFPA ChiefRepresentative in Vietnam Naomi Kitahara said the dignity kits are part of theUNFPA’s comprehensive humanitarian assistance package to protect sexual andreproductive health, ensure the rights of women and girls, cut the risk of genderviolence, and shield women and girls from the negative impact of crises.

VFU Chairman Thao Xuan Sung, for hispart, lauded the close cooperation over the years between the UNFPA and the VFUCentral Committee in the fields of population, reproductive healthcare, genderequality, and the prevention of violence against women and girls.

He also thanked the UNFPA forproviding effective support to women and girls in central localities hit byfloods.

According to a national study in 2019on violence against women, nearly two out of three married women suffered oneor more kinds of physical, sexual, emotional, or economic violence in the previous12 months. Some 48 percent said they did not reveal their problem to anyone, while90.4 percent did not seek any support from relevant authorities. Workplace productivityloss due to violence against women accounted for 1.81 percent of GDP in 2018./.

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