Social development
Family, children and youth
Project to improve ethnic minority children’s access to education
A project designed to help girls, especially those in ethnic minority areas, get access to education, was launched by UNESCO in Hanoi on April 25. Financed by the UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education, the “We are able” project will focus on four key fields, including raising public ...
Agreement signed targeting to improve nutritional status for Vietnamese children
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and Amway Vietnam on April 23 signed a cooperation agreement on the continuous implementation of a project aimed at improving nutrition for children under five in Vietnam during 2019-2020.Officially launched in 2014, Nutrilite Power of 5 is a social programme ...
Vietnam vows to join int’l efforts in ending sexual violence during conflict
Vietnam will work closely with the international community in preventing and stamping out sexual violence during conflicts, said Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations (UN). The ambassador made the affirmation at a high-level open dialogue on sexual violence in ...
Sexual assaults constitute 80 percent of child abuse cases, says government
Out of 1,600 cases of child abuse last year, 80 percent involved sexual assault, according to the Ministry of Public Security. In a report the ministry filed at a conference Thursday, it said that in 59 percent of child sexual abuse cases reported to the national ...
Doan Loan
Forum looks to promote children’s rights in business
Domestic and international experts and businesses gathered at a forum in Ho Chi Minh City on April 16, discussing and sharing good practices that companies worldwide are undertaking to respect and promote children’s rights in business. The event was jointly held by the United Nations ...
Youth Co:Lab Summit 2019 opens in Hanoi
The second Asia Pacific Youth Co:Lab Summit opened in Hanoi on April 4, attracting the participation of more than 500 delegates, including hundreds of young people, partners and government officials from 20 countries.Co-created in 2017 by UNDP and the Citi Foundation, Youth Co:Lab aims to ...
Việt Nam in urgent need of legislation to prevent child sex abuse
Viet Nam still lacks mechanisms to prevent the abuse of children in various forms and support children victims. Attendees said the abuse of children is still dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and efforts to revise legal documents to correct out-of-date regulations and close loopholes have not ...
VNS Reporter
Police wants tighter social surveillance of child abusers
A total of 1,547 child abuse cases were reported nationwide last year, with majority child sexual abuse, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Security. The report said 82 per cent of the total child abuse crimes were child sexual abuse, harming 1,141 ...
VNS Reporter
Child cancer patients in need of greater support: NA Chairwoman
Child cancer patients from disadvantaged backgrounds need more treatment assistance.[]Last year, Vietnam reported around 164,000 new cancer cases nationwide, 1.5 percent of which are children, and 114,000 resulting in death.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam targets vaccination rate of 95 percent for under-1-year-old children
The health sector aims to have over 95 percent of under-one-year-old children nationwide fully vaccinated in the expanded national immunization programme by 2020, said Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) Dang Duc Anh. The programme will continue to support disadvantaged localities to increase ...
Nguyễn Bích Thủy
