Plan to implement the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control 2022 in Vietnam

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On May 18, 2024, the Prime Minister of Vietnam issued Decision 428/QD-TTg on the Plan for Implementing the Enforcement of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 in Vietnam.

Plan to implement the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control 2022 in Vietnam

The Plan for Implementing the Enforcement of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 in Vietnam includes the following contents:

(1) Reviewing legislative documents:

- Content: Reviewing legislative documents related to the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 under the jurisdiction of the state management authorities that have been assigned; implementing amendments, replacements, revocations, or new issuance of legislative documents in a timely manner according to their jurisdiction or recommendations from competent authorities to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022; and detailed regulations on certain articles of the Law.

- Implementing authorities: The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism shall review legislative documents related to the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 under the jurisdiction of the Ministry; the ministries, central-level agencies, and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities shall review legal documents related to the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 in the fields and areas under their assigned state management authority and submit the review results to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister.

- Completion time: December 2024.

(2) Developing and issuing detailed regulations on the enforcement of certain articles of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022:

- Developing a Decree on detailing certain articles of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 (the Government has issued Decree 76/2023/ND-CP).

- Developing a Decree on the establishment of a database on prevention and control of domestic violence.

+ Leading agency: Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

+ Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Government Office, Vietnam Social Security, and relevant agencies and organizations.

+ Submission deadline: Before October 15, 2024.

- Developing a Decree amending certain articles of Decree 144/2021/ND-CP on administrative sanctions in the fields of security, public order, social safety; prevention and control of social evils; fire prevention and fighting; search and rescue; prevention and control of domestic violence, regarding the content related to the handling of administrative violations in the field of prevention and control of domestic violence according to the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022.

+ Leading agency: Ministry of Public Security.

+ Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Ministry of Justice, Government Office, and relevant agencies and organizations.

+ Submission deadline: Before December 15, 2024.

- Ministers, heads of central-level agencies shall review the provisions of the Law and related regulations in the fields within the scope of their assigned tasks and powers to issue legislative documents according to their jurisdiction or submit them to competent authorities for issuance of legislative documents to ensure the consistency and uniformity of legal regulations.

(3) Propagating, disseminating, and educating on the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 and the document detailing certain articles of the Law.

- Activities:

+ Publishing and updating the full text of the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence 2022 and the detailed regulations on certain articles of the Law on the Portal/Electronic Information Page, the National Database on Legislative Documents, and other appropriate forms for easy access, exploration, and use by officials, public employees, employees, and the general public.

+ Implementing appropriate forms of legal dissemination; compiling, publishing, and widely distributing popular educational materials and coordinating with the Ministry of Justice to update on the National Law Education Portal http://pbgdpl.gov.vn.

+ Organizing law propaganda, dissemination, and education on prevention and control of domestic violence through specific forms; coordinating with press agencies to organize specialized sections, programs, news, articles, and other forms as regulated by the law on law dissemination and education suitable for each specific target group.

- Implementing agencies: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Public Security, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam Television, Vietnam News Agency, and other press, radio, and television agencies.

- Coordinating agencies:

+ Ministries, central-level agencies, agencies under the Government, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, and related agencies and organizations.

+ Requesting the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy to coordinate with relevant agencies and organizations to effectively carry out the tasks of propaganda and education on policies and laws on prevention and control of domestic violence.

+ Requesting the Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations, such as the Vietnam Farmers' Association, the Vietnam Women's Union, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, and other member organizations of the Front to participate in the dissemination program of laws on prevention and control of domestic violence to their members.

- Implementation period: Annually.

(4) The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, ministries, central-level agencies, People's Committees of provinces, and centrally-run cities shall review and implement the state management tasks assigned in the Law within their respective fields and areas.

Implementation period: Annually.

Details can be found in Decision 428/QD-TTg which comes into force from May 18, 2024.

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