Conditions for establishing domestic violence victim support facilities in Vietnam

According to Decree No. 08/2009/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, domestic violence victim support facilities are prescribed as follows:

First, activities in support of domestic violence victims are humanitarian and non-profit activities aimed at helping the victims, including:

- Providing health and medical care;

- Providing legal and psychological counseling;

- Providing shelters in case the victims have nowhere to reside, in order to avoid subsequent violent acts of the persons who have committed domestic violence acts;

- Supporting some essential needs of the victims in case they can neither afford those needs nor get support from their relatives or friends. Support for essential needs means supplying meals, drinking water or lending clothes, blankets and mosquito nets and other essential utensils.

Second, conditions for setting up a domestic violence victim support facility include:

- Having fixed workplaces and funding sources to ensure operation of the facility;

- The head of the facility must have full civil act capacity and not be currently serving a court criminal judgment or ruling, a decision on the application of educational measures at commune, ward or township or a decision on sending him/her to a medical or educational establishment under the law on handling of administrative violations;

- Having counselors and workers at the facility who meet the criteria specified in Article 15 of this Decree.

Third, conditions for establishment of a domestic violence victim support facility include:

- Conditions for setting up a domestic violence victim support facility as mentioned above;

- The establishment has a minimum area of 30 square meters, with rooms arranged as shelters for domestic violence victims, which must satisfy hygienic and environmental requirements.

View more details at Decree No. 08/2009/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from March 22, 2009.

Long Binh

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