Violence against women, children never acceptable: UNICEF Chief Representative
Violence against women and children is never acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of the group, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers.
UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers (Photo: UNICEF)
Hanoi (VNA) - Violence against women and children isnever acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of thegroup, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers.
Flowers made her remarks while talking to the pressregarding a campaign to enhance public awareness of women and childrenprotection and spread the message of zero tolerance for violence against them.
Co-launched by the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs (MoLISA), UN agencies, and the Australian Aid on July 5, theinitiative was built on a 2020 campaign to raise public awareness and changeindividual and societal behaviour, helping prevent violence before it begins. Accordingto the organisers, the campaign calls for attention and support from the wholecommunity to create a violence-free environment in families, schools andcommunity as well as on cyber space.
Commenting on the programme, the Chief Representative said UNICEF hasbeen working with the MoLISA to introduce a system-wide approach so that thepolice know and act on their role, the social workers are in place incommunities to identify children and women at risk.
According to her, the organisation has been working with thejudges and the court system to ensure that victims receive special protectionand are not re-victimised. It has reached out to the communities to raiseawareness, to break the silence around abuse, and to ensure that we all standup to help stop violence.
She also pointed out solutions to the pressing issue, namelybreaking the silence, zero tolerance to violence, and a system-wide response.
Flowers noted that in Vietnam, there are an increasingnumber of one-stop shops where women and adolescents can go if they are beingabused, to get the full range of support, as well as shelters where women cantake their children to for protection.
The survey on Sustainable Development Goals indicators onchildren and women in Vietnam for the 2020-2021 period showed that more than72% of children between the ages of 10 and 14 experienced violent discipline.
Meanwhile, a survey by the United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) in Vietnam said that in 2019, 62.9% of women in Vietnam experienced oneor more forms of violence in their lifetime such as physical, sexual, emotionaland economic violence, as well as controlling behaviour by the husband. Inaddition, violence against women resulted in a deficit of 1.81% of thecountry's GDP./.
A strengthened protection system and zero tolerance to violence are required to better protect children, said Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative to Vietnam in a statement released on December 29.
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UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers (Photo: UNICEF) 
