08 responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam in domestic violence prevention and control

Specifically, according to Article 36 of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control 2007 of Vietnam, the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is specified as follows:

1. Preparing normative legal documents and action plans and programs on prevention and control of domestic violence acts and submitting them to the relevant authorities for their promulgation or it can promulgate these by itself within its authority.

2. Actively cooperating with other ministries, ministerial level agencies, Government offices and provincial People’s Committees in enforcing the legal documents and action plans and programs on prevention and control of domestic violence acts.

3. Providing guidance on counseling on family issues as well as on the establishment and dismissal of counseling centers for domestic violence prevention and control and domestic violence victim assistance centers.

4. Actively cooperating with the concerned institutions/organizations to issue and organizing the implementation of the regulations on training the staff involved in domestic violence prevention and control.

5. Inspecting and checking the enforcement of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control.

6. Conducting international cooperation on prevention and control of domestic violence acts in line with the laws.

7. Actively guiding review, analysis and consolidation of domestic violence  prevention and control activities, guiding the preparation of statistical reports on domestic violence prevention and control as well as guiding the review of practical experiences and replication of good models on domestic violence prevention and control.

8. Actively cooperating with the concerned institutions in editing and providing information on prevention and control of domestic violence acts.

View more details at the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control 2007 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2008.

Ty Na

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