Hanoi (VNA) – The Prime Minister has approved a nationwide prostitution prevention programme for 2016-2020 with a🅰 series of solutions.
It targets that from 2016, central and provincial-level news outlets will update the public about the latest outcomes of the fight against prostitution at least once per month.
Up to 75 percent of communes and townships, by 2017, will hold at least one campaign to raise public awareness of the fight and make it a regular activity. The target for 2020 is 100 percent.
Fifty percent of cities and provinces by 2017, and 100 percent by 2020 will incorporate the drive into their own socio-economic development schemes targeting poverty reduction, vocational training for rural workers, and human trafficking combat.
The programme will design and launch intervening measures to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
By 2020, 20 cities and provinces will offer social assistance services to sex workers.
To that end, the municipal and provincial People’s Councils must issue relevant resolutions and urge People’s Committees to report enforcement outcomes at their meetings.
Ministries, departments and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee will strengthen supervision and multiply effective preventive models.
The drive also looks to raise funding from individuals and organisations at home and abroad and intensify cooperation with neighbouring countries throughout the cause.
The press is also responsible for an awareness campaign about the programme.
Statistically, there are more than 11,000 prostitutes on record in the country.-VNA
Foreign and domestic delegates met at a workshop in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 25 to seek ways to fight against prostitution, which has been getting more sophisticated in this booming hi-tech era.
Better policies and more awareness campaigns on the sex trade crackdown are needed, said the participants of a seminar in the northern province of Quang Ninh on February 25.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to pilot a model enhancing access to social services for prostitutes to assist them in quitting the trade and re-integrating into the community.
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Since President Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper in 1925, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has become the voice of the people. During the resistance war against the colonialists, journalists took great personal risks to inspire patriotism and the will of rising up against foreign invaders.
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From “Thanh nien”, Vietnam’s first revolutionary newspaper founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc (later President Ho Chi Minh) on June 21, 1925, the revolutionary press has remained devoted to its sacred missions -accompanying the nation, serving the Fatherland, and working for the people.
Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
