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Law on Family Violence Prevention and Control comes into effect since July 1.

Law on Family Violence Prevention and Control has been approved in 12th National Assembly and 2nd Meeting session on 21st November, 2008 and It will come into effect since 1st July, 2008. This is an important and deeply humane law and it manifested the Party and Government’s policy on family violence prevention and control. Implementing the law will contribute to strengthen and build well-off, equal, and happy Vietnamese families.

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Law on Family Violence Prevention and Control includes 4 chapters and 46 articles. In chapter 1 (article 2), the law clearly prescribes family violence acts: spiritual violence, sex violence, beatings, maltreatment, etc, causing physical, spiritual, and economic damages to other family members.  Violence behaviors prescribed in this law even are applied to devoted wife and husband, unmarried couple living together.

Due to Vietnamese culture and custom, family violence is considered personal matter by most Vietnamese families, so they don’t like law intervention. Therefore, basic principal of the Law is concentrated on popularization, consultancy, education, and reconciliation in community, prescribed in chapter 2 (article 9 to 17).   

Chapter 3 of the Law prescribes protection and support for family violence victims. Other chapters prescribe responsibility of individuals, families, and departments for family violence prevention and control, handling law violation of family violence prevention and control, complaint as well as denouncement. 

Reported by Thanh Le, translated by Hoai Thu.

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