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Workshop seeks solutions to child sexual exploitation in tourism

A consultation workshop to evaluate and analyse Vietnam’s legal framework and give feedback to measures to fight child sexual exploitation in tourism and travel, took place in Hanoi on July 14.
Workshop seeks solutions to child sexual exploitation in tourism ảnh 1Vietnam seeks to prevent  child sexual exploitation in tourism - illustrative image (Source: internet)
Hanoi(VNA) – Aconsultation workshop to evaluate and analyse Vietnam’s legal framework and givefeedback to measures to fight child sexual exploitation in tourism and travel, took place in Hanoi on July14.

The event, jointly organised by the Ministry of Justice, United Nations Officeon Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),offered a chance for participants to understanding more about Vietnam’s legalsystem in the field.

Nguyen Thi Kim Thoa, Director of the Ministry’s Department of Criminal andAdministrative Law said many countries around the world, includingVietnam, are facing challenges related child sexual abuse in general and child sexual tourism in particular.

The international integration policy across fields and national policy ontourism development brought both great economic benefits and challenges toVietnam, including issues concerning the increase of child sexual crime, and childsexual tourism in particular, she said.

These require the government to have strict legal policies to ensure behavioursrelated to child sexuality must be strictly handled and prevented as well asVietnam’s international commitments to protecting and promoting rights ofchildren are implemented, she said.

Christopher Batt from UNODC office in Vietnam said the agency made evaluationson laws in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam-, and built a report “Child sexual exploitation in travel and tourism: abrief analysis of domestic legal frameworks” in the countries.

Since the report was released, Vietnam and the countries have promoted effortsto reform legal regulations, while making adjustments to criminal laws on childsexual exploitation, he noted.

A revised report on the work has been drafted to update and analyse new legalframeworks of each country. The report will give specific recommendations onthe ongoing legal reform, serving a foundation for the government of the fourcountries to promote legal reform, thus increasing effectiveness of the fightagainst crimes related to child sex tourism, Christopher stressed.

Participants said it is necessary to take comprehensive response solutions inenforcing laws and enhance coordination at national, regional and internationallevels in the work.

In Vietnam, laws related to child sex tourism have been approved by theNational Assembly, including the 2015 Criminal Code, the 2015 Code of CriminalProcedures and the 2016 Law on Children, which have helped reinforce a legalfoundation for implementing the work.-VNA
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