Vietnam: To specify responsibilities of human trafficking victim support establishments

According to Article 16 of Decree No. 09/2013/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, responsibilities of victim support establishments are specified as follows:

- Operating in strict accordance with the operation contents and scope stated in their foundation licenses.

- Responsibility for notification:

+ Within 30 (thirty) working days after obtaining a foundation license, a victim support establishment shall publish in 5 (five) consecutive issues of a local or central newspaper information on its name, address, fields of operation, bank account, full name of the head, and telephone number;

+ 15 (fifteen) working days before commencing its operation, a victim support establishment shall notify in writing of the commencement date of its operation and fields of operation to the provincial-level Service of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs;

+ At a victim support establishment’s head office there must be a board indicating its name, telephone number and address. When a foreign language is used, the font size of foreign language letters must be smaller than and written below the Vietnamese letters. The victim support establishment shall post up at its head office a plan of its working divisions together with a certified copy of its foundation license.

- Regularly making a report on the results of victim support activities to provincial-level Service of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in accordance with regulations.

View more details at Decree No. 09/2013/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from April 15, 2013.

Ty Na

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