At the ceremony to launch the project (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will helpVietnam build a legal environment with comprehensive policies which are able toprotect children and ensure their rights through the “Protecting and Promotingthe Rights of Children in Vietnam” project, launched in Hanoi on August 16.
The project is financed by the UNICEF’s non-refundable official developmentassistance (ODA) worth more than 17 million USD. It will be carried out during2018-2021 in Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dong Thap provinces, andDa Nang city.
It aims to promote law enforcement and programmes to assure the implementationof children’s rights in Vietnam as well as renew social security measures toaddress multidimensional poverty. In addition, the project will build andeffectively operate child protection systems including social work for childrenwhile developing child protection and justice services.
Also, it will pay heed to communication work to raise public awareness andchange cultural practices which are billed as bars to children’s development.
Speaking at the launch workshop, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalid and SocialAffairs Nguyen Thi Ha thanked UNICEF for its contributions and support forVietnam to ensure children’s rights in the past time.
Talking about challenges in promoting their rights, Ha stressed that thenation’s legal framework based on international standards still has many voidsthat need to be filled, comprising a lack of standards, regulations andprocesses for a comprehensive health care system, different statistics ofchildren’s rights among ministries and branches, and limited allocation and useof human resources to carry out children’s rights.
Currently,millions of Vietnamese children are in short of or have no access to education,health care, nutrition, housing, clean water, environmental hygiene, and socialintegration.
Meanwhile, the social security system and social support in particular haveshown limitations, which lead to the ineffective implementation of measures toprotect children with special circumstances, she said, noting that publicawareness of children’s rights and social involvement in handling child-relatedissues remain limited.
Settlement of such challenges is of utmost importance when Vietnam becomes amid-income nation. Promoting children’s rights means helping deal withinequality and carry out the Sustainable Development Goals, makingcontributions to realising the country’s socio-economic development plan during2016-2020, she said.
Director General of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs (MoLISA) Dang Hoa Nam, who is also director of the project,expressed his belief that the project will help resolve child violence andabuse.
“Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Children in Vietnam” is a collaborativeproject between the MOLISA and UNICEF. It was approved by the Prime Minister in2018.-VNA
The project is financed by the UNICEF’s non-refundable official developmentassistance (ODA) worth more than 17 million USD. It will be carried out during2018-2021 in Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dong Thap provinces, andDa Nang city.
It aims to promote law enforcement and programmes to assure the implementationof children’s rights in Vietnam as well as renew social security measures toaddress multidimensional poverty. In addition, the project will build andeffectively operate child protection systems including social work for childrenwhile developing child protection and justice services.
Also, it will pay heed to communication work to raise public awareness andchange cultural practices which are billed as bars to children’s development.
Speaking at the launch workshop, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalid and SocialAffairs Nguyen Thi Ha thanked UNICEF for its contributions and support forVietnam to ensure children’s rights in the past time.
Talking about challenges in promoting their rights, Ha stressed that thenation’s legal framework based on international standards still has many voidsthat need to be filled, comprising a lack of standards, regulations andprocesses for a comprehensive health care system, different statistics ofchildren’s rights among ministries and branches, and limited allocation and useof human resources to carry out children’s rights.
Currently,millions of Vietnamese children are in short of or have no access to education,health care, nutrition, housing, clean water, environmental hygiene, and socialintegration.
Meanwhile, the social security system and social support in particular haveshown limitations, which lead to the ineffective implementation of measures toprotect children with special circumstances, she said, noting that publicawareness of children’s rights and social involvement in handling child-relatedissues remain limited.
Settlement of such challenges is of utmost importance when Vietnam becomes amid-income nation. Promoting children’s rights means helping deal withinequality and carry out the Sustainable Development Goals, makingcontributions to realising the country’s socio-economic development plan during2016-2020, she said.
Director General of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs (MoLISA) Dang Hoa Nam, who is also director of the project,expressed his belief that the project will help resolve child violence andabuse.
“Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Children in Vietnam” is a collaborativeproject between the MOLISA and UNICEF. It was approved by the Prime Minister in2018.-VNA
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