Determining propaganda as a major and key task in implementing family work-related tasks in 2020, the Department of Culture and Sports of Hanoi City has strengthened the communication and propaganda work with various content and form from City level to grassroots level. The specific measure is to actively carry out propaganda via newspapers, radio and magazines about nice traditional and cultural values of Hanoi families, the International Day of Happiness 20/3, the significance of Vietnamese Family Day 28/6, the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control, Law on Gender Equality, the Party’s guidelines and policies, the State laws on family work to widely disseminate knowledge about families in Hanoi capital; thereby contributing to minimizing domestic violence and divorce; realizing gender equality in families; building prosperous, equal, progressive, happy and sustainable families. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the propaganda and guidance to the grassroots on formulating criteria that cultural families, cultural villages, and cultural residential groups must have no domestic violence, no drug addicts, no abuse against children, the elderly, and women, and no child marriage.
Family work has always been integrated into the movement “All people unite to build a cultural life”, considering the cultural family criteria as the standard for evaluation and review. In 2020, 87.5% of the total 1,946,999 households in the city got the title of Cultural Family, 61% of the total number of villages is recognized as Cultural Village, 71.5% of the total number of residential groups got the title of cultural residential groups.
Given the complicated development of the Covid-19 pandemic and the risk of infection as recommended by the Ministry of Health, the Department of Culture and Sports printed more than 10,000 flyers and delivered them to 30 districts and towns to propagate, on a historical basis, the International Day of Happiness 20/3, themes and messages of the United Nations; themes, slogans and activities of Vietnam on the occasion of International Day of Happiness 20/3.’
On the 19th anniversary of Vietnamese Family Day (June 28, 2001, to June 28, 2020), the city organized an exhibition area “Preserving and promoting the cultural tradition of good behavior within each family” at the Vietnam Culture and Arts Exhibition Center within the program “Vietnamese Family Day – 2020” from June 26 – 28, 2020. The exhibition aims to honor the profound human values of the Vietnamese family; promote propaganda and mobilization of all people to conduct a civilized lifestyle and cultural behavior within each family, community and society; inherit the good traditions of the Vietnamese nation and family, and selectively absorb advanced values.
On this occasion, local authorities have directed departments, agencies, branches, unions and People’s Committees of communes and wards to well propagate, disseminate and mobilize people to actively respond to and well implement the Party’s guidelines and policies and State laws related to family work. Propaganda is carried out in vivid visual forms such as using panels, posters, banners, slogans, leaflets; or through training conferences, contests, tournaments, workshops, and seminars held every month in each residential group, hamlet, and village; or on radio broadcasting system of communes and wards and via news and articles on the web portal. The branches such as Labor Confederation, Women Union, Farmers Union, Veterans Association, Youth Union should organize training courses on skills for females and knowledge of gender equality and building a happy family for grassroots female cadres, seminars on “Life skills”, “Raising children”, “Cultural behavior in family today”. Typically, the districts of Bac Tu Liem, Nam Tu Liem, Ba Dinh, Tay Ho, Ba Vi, Gia Lam, and Son Tay town held the typical cultural family festival and the conference to celebrate typical cultural families. Besides, Family Sports Tournament was organized in Bac Tu Liem district. Family Badminton Tournament took place in Phuc Tho district. The flower arrangement contest was in Phuc Tho district, Son Tay town…
Domestic violence prevention and support to victims of domestic violence were also paid much attention. Knowledge and skills on domestic violence prevention and control were propagated and shared in the meetings of residential groups or villages, or family work training sessions, thereby contributing to raising awareness of people on domestic violence prevention and control, and minimizing domestic violence cases. Currently, the city has 164 models of domestic violence prevention and control, 1,960 reliable addresses in the community, and 707 sustainable development family clubs. In 2020, there were 126 domestic violence cases, of which there are 52 cases of emotional violence, 70 cases of physical violence and 04 cases of economic violence.
In 2020, family work in the city was implemented synchronously and effectively, paying great attention to the propaganda and mobilization with many diverse forms and rich content such as: organizing art performance shows, seminars, exchange meetings, good people and good deeds praising ceremony, club activities… to carry out propaganda about policies, guidelines, and laws and work plan programs.
Incorporating family work in the movement “All people unite to build a cultural life”; well-implementing propaganda, education and dissemination of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control; building pilot models of domestic violence prevention and control interventions to raise awareness of people on the law; understanding violations of domestic violence; enhancing the role and responsibility of individuals in domestic violence prevention and control, and building harmonious and happy families.
Huyen Trang