Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently signed DecreeNo.23/CT-TTg on strengthening measures to ensure the enforcement of the rightsof children and child protection.
The PM asked ministries, agencies and people’s committees at all levels to strictlyenforce legal regulations on children, regularly review and fine-tune relatedpolicies and regulations and raise public awareness of child protectionpolicies and laws.
Heads of agencies and local authorities must beresponsible for child deaths due to injuries, serious violation of children’srights, and violence and sex abuse targeting children that happen within fieldsand areas under their jurisdiction, or for not taking due promptly deal with children’sright violation case.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs was assigned to review andamend laws and policies on social assistance to children living in especiallydisadvantaged situation, collect children’s feedback during the process ofbuilding relevant policies and programmes.
The Ministry was also tasked with building a nationalaction programme for children and a programme on child labour prevention andmitigation.
It must also regularly inspect the enforcement ofchildren rights as well as policies and laws on the prevention of child abuse.
The Ministry of Health was required to take actions toreduce and prevent malnutrition among children aged below 5, particularly thosein remote and ethnic minority regions.
The Ministry of Education and Training must work to prevent dropout, violence, abuseand accidents at schools, improve the supply of clean water and safe food ateducational establishments as well as the capacity and professional ethics ofteachers.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism must prevent child sex abuse andviolence, especially in entertainment areas in poor communes while the Ministryof Public Security must combat child trafficking, and step up investigation andstrictly deal with cases involving child abuse.
People’s committees of centrally-run cities andprovinces were instructed to allocate sufficient funding to ensure theenforcement of children’s rights and protection./.
