Vice Director of Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Tran Thi Van Anh launched the 2024 Action Month for Gender Equality and Prevention, Response to Gender-based Violence
The Action Month, held annually from November 15 to December 15, serves as a key campaign to promote gender equality and prevent, and respond to gender-based violence in the city. It aims to enhance the role, responsibility, and effectiveness of the coordination efforts among various levels and sectors. The campaign mobilizes the collective strength of the political system and the public to implement gender equality and prevent, and respond to gender-based violence, empower women and girls, and ensure social welfare, especially in ethnic, mountainous regions, and areas affected by natural disasters, thus narrowing the gender inequality gap and reducing instances of gender-based violence.
The initiative also seeks to increase the dissemination, communication, and education on social welfare policies, gender equality, and the prevention and response to gender-based violence at all levels. It focuses on educating knowledge and skills to protect and prevent violence and abuse against women and children, family members, and gender equality workers. Additionally, it provides information and enhances the capacity to prevent and respond to the negative impacts of climate change, natural disasters, floods, and epidemics on women and children. The campaign emphasizes the importance of preventing, detecting, and timely handling cases of violence and abuse against women and children, to minimize and eventually eliminating such incidents.
Launching the 2024 Action Month with the theme “Ensuring Social Welfare, Empowering and Creating Opportunities for Women and Girls to Achieve Gender Equality and Eliminate Gender-based Violence,” Vice Director Tran Thi Van Anh urged leaders of departments, units, officials, public servants, and employees under the Department to increase awareness of gender equality and the prevention and response to gender-based violence. She also emphasized enhancing communication on social welfare policies, the role of women, gender equality, and the prevention and response to violence, abuse against women and children, as well as skills to prevent and respond to the negative impacts of climate change, natural disasters, floods, and epidemics, etc.
Simultaneously, the Department of Culture and Sports is implementing the city’s 2024 Action Month plan for gender equality and the prevention and response to gender-based violence across district, county, and township Culture and Information Offices. The department is reinforcing state management of outdoor advertising activities, integrating gender equality, and preventing and responding to gender-based violence content in cultural and artistic activities during Action Month. It is directing the enhancement of propaganda on the theme and messages of Action Month, organizing banners, slogans, posters, and cultural, artistic, and sports activities at public locations in compliance with regulations.
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