Co-implemented by the relevant Vietnamese ministries, agencies and other stakeholders, the project is expected to raise public awareness – among women and girls, men and boys, parents/caregivers, children and adolescents – about the increased risks of violence in the home, quarantine centres and other institutions.

Representatives from the Government of Australia and UN agencies sign an agreement to launch a project aimed at protecting Vietnamese women and children from violence in the context of Covid-19, Hanoi, June 17, 2020.

Increased support for survivors of violence will be delivered across the four cities and provinces of Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City – the locations most affected by the Covid-19 over the past months. This will help ensure survivors have access to integrated and essential services.

Innovative approaches will be introduced in communications and service provision work taking into account the special circumstances of Covid-19 and in partnership with supermarkets, pharmacies and hotels.

The project will support the ongoing efforts by the Vietnamese Government and civil society organisations to strengthen national prevention and response mechanisms to address violence against women and children in the context of Covid-19, and to ensure that all Vietnamese women and children, including those most vulnerable, can live a life free of violence.

“Evidence shows that during crises and disasters, family and gender-based violence increases. During the Covid-19 pandemic, job losses and enforced home isolation have caused rates of violence against women and children to soar in many countries around the world. Domestically, Australia has increased its budgets to address family violence that has occurred as a result of Covid-19. Today, Australia pledges its support to the Government of Vietnam to secure greater safety for women and children in its Covid-19 response,” said Robyn Mudie, Australian Ambassador to Vietnam.

New decree to protect Vietnamese abroad from hazardous employ

Vietnamese will be banned from working seven types of dangerous jobs while overseas, including massage, under a government decree effective May 20.

Opportunities to export medical protective gear to the European-American market

The demand for importing personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies is growing in several European and American countries amid the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, which is an opportunity for Vietnamese businesses to export goods to these markets.

Vietnam ready with citizen protection measures in Germany

The Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has said the ministry asked the Vietnamese Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to work with the host authorities to ensure legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese citizens and stay ready to conducts citizen protection measures if necessary.

Nearly 730 products protected for commodity brand in Bac Giang province

(BGO) - The National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (Ministry of Science and Technology) has issued the protection certificate of commodity brand for 37 products in the northern province of Bac Giang.

PM stresses need to protect people’s health, life amid COVID-19

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 24 ordered authorities to exert efforts so as to keep the spread of the acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) from impacting Vietnam.

Source: NDO