Many countries around the world celebrate International Children’s Day on June 1 to raise public awareness about children’s rights. This year, Vietnam has launched the Action Month for Children to call for more efforts in child protection and care.
A Child Rights and Business Forum was organised in Hanoi on May 30 by UNICEF Vietnam and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), emphasising the need for responsible business practices that respect child rights and prevent adverse human rights impacts.
In the remote and ethnically diverse regions of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, devoted village-based health workers are striving to replace entrenched, antiquated customs with modern healthcare practices, despite the challenges they face.
Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, who is Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium, wrapped up her three-day visit to Vietnam, which highlighted the Southeast Asian country's significant achievements towards realising child rights as well as the key challenges the most vulnerable children still face.
The Ministry of Health’s Department of Medical Services Administration and the UNICEF Child Protection Programme Division held a working session with leaders of hospitals under the management of the ministry and the Hanoi Health Department to develop social work services and care for the health and protection of children in hospitals.
Caring for and protecting the children is the responsibility of not a particular agency but the whole political system and society, ensuring that children get the best access to their rights, stated Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Association for the Protection of Child Rights.
The Suwon district court in Gyeonggi province, the Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 23 opened a first-instance trial on a principal of a kindergarten in Hwaseong city accused of abusing a 9-month-old Vietnamese boy to death in November last year.
Ho Chi Minh City targets to reduce the rate of hepatitis B virus infection in children under five years old to less than 0.5%, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virus by 2050.
A training workshop on child labour mitigation and communication skills for trade union officials in the south is underway in Ho Chi Minh City from December 21-22.
Vietnam is in need of village-based midwives as the country has more than 7,000 remote and disadvantaged villages where women do not regularly get antenatal care at medical facilities.
The Press Department under the Ministry of Information and Communications held a refresher course in the central city of Da Nang on December 2 on the protection of children in the online environment, with the participation of nearly 100 reporters in the central region.
More than 5,000 aid packages worth 9 billion VND (363,489 USD) were presented to more than 2,000 children and families affected by COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City in the first half of this year under a project implemented by the city's Child Welfare Association and Save the Children, heard a conference on November 29.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam has called on the community to promote the power of sport to drive inclusion; build skills, competencies, confidence and to support mental wellbeing of children and adolescents in Vietnam, on the occasion of World Children’s Day (WCD) (November 20).
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on November 17 ordered raising public awareness of child abuse acts and punishments against violation of children’s rights, thereby building a safe and child-friendly living environment.
The Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell, highly valued Vietnam’s achievements in child protection and care during a three-day visit to Vietnam that concluded on November 13.
Thailand’s Children Hospital has reported a rise in the number of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) patients year by year. The hospital is asking parents of very young children to be cautious and take precautionary measures against respiratory diseases.
Students of A Tuc Primary and Secondary School in central Quang Tri province on October 11 participated in an event to raise awareness against child, early and forced marriage.
Vietnam has conducted numerous activities to respond to the International Day of the Girl Child 2022 (October 11), which is themed “Our time is now-our rights, our future”.
The Vietnam Disaster Management Authority and UNICEF Vietnam co-organised a training workshop on information and communications orientations for child-centred disaster risk reduction in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on October 7.
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