Selling alcohol, beer, cigarettes, addictive substances for children is strictly prohibited in Vietnam

According to the Children Law 2016 of Vietnam, the following acts are strictly prohibited:

- Deprive children of the right to life.

- Neglect, abandon or engage in children trafficking, kidnap, swap and appropriate children.

- Involve in child sexual abuse, use violence against children, abuse or exploit children.

- Organize, support, incite or force the child to engage in child marriage.

- Use, persuade, incite, excite, entice or force children to commit violations against the law, or offend the honor or dignity of another person.

- Prevent children from exercising their rights and responsibilities.

- Fails to provide or conceal or preclude the provision of information concerning children who are abused or threatened to be exploited or suffered violence to their families, educational establishments or competent agencies and officials.

- Discriminate against children on the grounds of their personal characters, family background, sex, race, nationality, belief or religion.

- Sell or facilitate children in drinking alcohol or beer, smoking and using addictive substances or other stimulants, and unsafe foods which may cause harm to children.

- Provide internet service and other services; produce, reproduce, release, operate, disseminate, possess, transport, store and trade in publications, toys, games and other products whose contents cause adverse influence on children’s healthy development.

- Announce or disclose information about the privacy or secret of the child without the consent of the child who is enough 07 years old or older, or the consent of the child’s parent or guardian.

- Make corrupt use of the child surrogate care to harm such child; take advantage of state policies and aid granted by organizations or individuals to seek private profit.

- Build service facilities, production establishments or warehouses storing goods that cause environmental pollution, toxic chemicals or inflammables near facilities providing children protection services, educational establishments, health establishments, cultural establishments, children’s entertainment and amusement centers or vice versa.

- Encroach or use facilities that serve children’s study, entertainment and other children protection services for purposes other than those regulated or illegal purposes.

- Refuse, fail to perform or perform in an insufficient untimely manner the support, intervention or treatment for children who are threatened to be or in peril, and whose body, honor or dignity are harmed.

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