The United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC) wants to further
strengthen cooperation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security
to control trans-border drug trafficking and combat crimes, especially
newly emerging ones.
Sexual abuse of children has been increasing in Vietnam, especially in tourist destinations, but the country's Penal Code lacks a clause directly governing child sex tourism crimes, according to a joint survey from the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC).
Criminal activities in Vietnam have been getting more and more
sophisticated and difficult to control in recent years, with
transnational and foreign-related cases on the increase, said Pham Quy
Ngo, Deputy Minister of Public Security at a meeting to discuss drugs
and crime held in Hanoi on April 27.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) projects have helped improve
drug and HIV awareness among ethnic minority people in four northern
mountainous provinces since they were launched in 2008.
Child sex tourism is not mentioned specifically in Vietnamese
legislation, but there are fears that it can be growing as the nation
makes big advances in attracting holiday makers - and as Vietnamese
themselves move more and more around the country.
The Human Rights Watch’s recent report on forced labour and abuses in
drug detention centres in Vietnam is groundless and distorts the
reality in Vietnam with bad intention, the Foreign Ministry
Spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said in Hanoi on Sept. 9.
Member countries of the Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control in
the Greater Mekong sub-region reached in 1993 (MOU 1993) held a
ministerial meeting in the Lao capital city of Vientiane on May 24.
A workshop was held in Hanoi on Feb.
25 to launch a United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) - funded
project for the treatment of drug use and health-related effects.
The Vietnamese Government has achieved many important
results in the prevention and control of drugs and crimes over the past
decade, said a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 17.
Representatives from key international and
Vietnamese organisations are attending a workshop on strengthening
international collaboration to tackle the illegal trans-border wildlife
trade in Hanoi from December 2-3.
The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) opened a training course for executive and judicial
officers on skills to detect and prevent money laundering in Ho Chi
Minh City on Nov. 11.
Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong stressed the need to promulgate a law on
the prevention and fight against human trafficking in the circumstance
of human trafficking, especially in women and children has become more
complex.
The Committee for Ethnic Minorities has presented an insignia for the
cause of ethnic minority group development to Jason William John Eligh,
former acting chief representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC).
Senior officials of the signatories to
the Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control among Greater Mekong
Subregion (MOU process) flocked to Da Nang city in central Vietnam
on May 12 for a three-day meeting.
The seventh meeting of the ASEAN
Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Fact-Finding Committee (AIFOCOM)
to Combat the Drug Menace opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 23.
The UN Office for Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) has funded a 700,000 USD project on HIV control and treatment
for prisons in Vietnam, which was launched in Hanoi on April 22.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held a seminar on
legal frameworks to fight and prevent terrorism in the capital city of
Hanoi on March 28.
A Lao anti-drug leader has called on
the international community to back the nation’s 2009-13 programme on
drug control in an effort to turn the vision of a drug-free ASEAN into
reality by 2015.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) in coordination with the Ministry of Public Security held a
training course on anti-money laundering in Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Dec. 10
and 11.
