Regional women parliamentarians shared ideas and experiences in making and supervising laws to prevent and control domestic violence in a seminar held in the central city of Hue on December 14.

The seminar entitled “Role of women parliamentarians in making, implementing and supervising laws on domestic violence prevention and control” was jointly held by Vietnam’s National Assembly Committee of Social Affairs and local and regional women parliamentarians.

At the seminar, parliamentarians from Cambodia , Laos , Malaysia , East Timor, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, Venezuela and Vietnam discussed measures to raise their role and awareness in the making of laws as well as in issues relating to women.

At present, the implementation of laws on family violence prevention and control is still a new issue in ASEAN countries and many other countries in the world. So far, only eight out of ten countries in Southeast Asia have promulgated such laws. In Vietnam , the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control was approved by the National Assembly in 2007 and came into effect as of July 1, 2008.

The seminar will end on December 15./.