Guidelines for organizing the mid-autumn festival 2024 for children in Vietnam

Guidelines for organizing the mid-autumn festival 2024 for children in Vietnam (Image from the internet)

On July 15, 2024, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam issued Official Dispatch 3099/BLDTBXH-CTE regarding the organization of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2024.

Guidelines for organizing the mid-autumn festival 2024 for children in Vietnam

Mid-Autumn Festival for children in Vietnam is a beautiful tradition of the Vietnamese people. To ensure that children across the country enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival 2024, the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs requests that the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities direct provincial departments and authorities as well as People's Committees at all levels on several key points:

- Allocate budget from the state; mobilize resources from organizations and individuals to visit and give Mid-Autumn gifts to children, focusing on children in special circumstances, children from poor and near-poverty households, children in ethnic minority regions, remote and isolated areas, border areas, islands, orphans, and children affected by natural disasters and diseases.

- Direct the Department of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs to cooperate with provincial departments, authorities, and related units to organize safe, healthy, practical, and economical Mid-Autumn festival activities for children. Connect traditional Mid-Autumn festival values with tourism promotion events, cultural and culinary specialties of each region and locality. Encourage activities that attract and facilitate the participation of children in special circumstances and children in economically and socially disadvantaged regions.

- Prioritize the protection of children’s health, particularly in matters concerning food safety and hygiene; protect children from the negative impacts of violent, anti-educational, poor-quality, toxic, dangerous, and inappropriate products, toys, and games.

More details can be found in Official Dispatch 3099/BLDTBXH-CTE issued on July 15, 2024.

Prohibited acte against children in Vietnam

According to Article 6 of the Law on Children 2016, the following actions are prohibited against children:

- Depriving children of their right to life.

- Abandonment, neglect, trafficking, kidnapping, switching, or taking children.

- Sexual abuse, violence, exploitation, or child abuse.

- Organizing, supporting, inciting, or forcing children into early marriage.

- Using, enticing, inciting, provoking, exploiting, pulling, or coercing children to commit legal violations or insult the honor and dignity of others.

- Obstructing children from exercising their rights and duties.

- Failing to provide or concealing, obstructing the provision of information about children who are abused or at risk of exploitation or violence to families, educational facilities, authorities, or individuals with competent authority.

- Stigmatizing, discriminating against children based on personal characteristics, family circumstances, gender, ethnicity, nationality, beliefs, or religion.

- Selling or giving children alcohol, beer, tobacco, and addictive substances, other stimulants, or unsafe food harmful to children.

- Providing internet services and other services; producing, copying, distributing, operating, disseminating, possessing, transporting, storing, trading publications, toys, games, and other products targeting children that have content negatively impacting their healthy development.

- Publishing, disclosing information about the private life and personal secrets of children without the consent of children aged 7 years and older and their parents or guardians.

- Exploiting alternative child care to harm children; exploiting the State's policies and support from organizations and individuals for children for profit.

- Establishing service facilities, production, or warehouses that cause environmental pollution, or have a direct risk of fires, explosions near facilities providing child protection services, educational, health, cultural centers, recreational, and entertainment points for children or placing child protection services, educational, health, cultural centers, recreational, and entertainment points near such risky establishments.

- Encroaching upon or using infrastructure intended for learning, playing, entertainment, or child protection services for improper purposes or against the law.

- Refusing, failing to perform fully, or promptly supporting, intervening, or treating children at risk or in dangerous situations, or children whose physical, honor, or dignity are harmed.

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