Country Viet Nam
Year 2016 - 2020
Type of Measure Policies > National action plan specific to violence against women
Form of Violence Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


The National Thematic Project on Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response from 2016 to 2020 with a Vision to 2030 was approved by the government on 22 July 2016 with the aim of: improving the mechanisms and policies for the prevention of and response to gender-based violence; enhancing law enforcement; and ensuring that services for the prevention of and response to gender-based violence are implemented simultaneously across the country, to move in the direction of a safe, equal, and non-violent society by 2030.

Source of Information

Viet Nam's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.16.