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Chapter IV

RESPONSIBILITIES OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, INSTITUTIONS/ORGANIZATIONS IN PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Article 31. Individual responsibility

1. Complying with the Laws on Domesic Violence Prevention and Control; on Marriage and Family; on Gender Equality; on Drug, Sex and Other Social Evil Prevention and Control.

2. Timely preventing domestic violence acts; reporting domestic violence acts to relevant authorities.

Article 32. Responsibility of families

1. Educating and urging family members to comply with the Laws on Domestic violence Prevention and Control; on Marriage and Family; on Gender Equality; on Drug. Sex and Other Socil Evil Prevention and Control.

2. Conciliating conflicts and disputes among family members; preventing people from committing violent acts; nursing and taking care of domestic violence victims who are family members.

3. Cooperating with the institutions/organizations and the community to prevent and fight domestic violence acts.

4. Taking other measures to prevent and fight domestic violence acts in accordance with this Law.

Article 33. Responsibility of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Committee and its member organizations

1. Conducting communication and education activities, encouraging the members and people to comply with the Laws on Domstic Violence Prevention and Control; on Marriage and Family; on Gender equality; on Drug, Sex and other Social Evil Prevention and Control.

2. Proposing necessary measures to the State Agencies to eenact the Regulations of the Laws on Prevention and control of domestic violent acts; Marriage and Family, Gender equality; Prevention, anti-drug, sex and other social illnesses, preventing and fighting the domestic violent acts; nursing and protecting the domestic violence victims.

Jointly supervising the enforcement of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control.

Article 34. Responsibility of the Viet Nam‘s Women Union

1. Bearing responsibilities as stipulated in Article 33 of this Law.

2. Organizing domestic violence prevention and control couselling centers and victim supporting centres.

3. Organizing vocational training, credit and saving activities to support victims.

4. To cooperate with the concerning institutions, organizations to protect and assist victims.

Article 35. The state management agency on domestic violence prevention and control

1. The Government shall unify state management of domestic violence prevention and control;

2. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall be responsible to Government for exercising the state management of domestic violence prevention and control;

3. Ministries and ministerial-level agencies, within their designated functions and authority, shall be obliged to cooperate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in exercising state management of domestic violence prevention and control;

4. People’s Committees at all levels, within their designated functions and authority, shall be obliged to perform the state management of domestic violence prevention and control;

5. Annual reports on socio-economic situation submitted by Commune People’s Committees to the Commune People’s Councils shall include details of domestic violence prevention and control situation and results.

Article 36. Responsibility of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

1. Preparing normative legal documents and action plans and programs on prevention and control of domestic violence acts and submitting them to the relevant authorities for their promulgation or it can promulgate these by itself within its authority.

2. Actively cooperating with other ministries, ministerial level agencies, Government offices and provincial People’s Committees in enforcing the legal documents and action plans and programs on prevention and control of domestic violence acts.

3. Providing guidance on counselling on family issues as well as on the establishment and dismissal of counselling centres for domestic violence prevention and control and domestic violence victim assistance centres.

4. Actively cooperating with the concerned institutions/organizations to issue and organizing the implementation of the regulations on training the staff involved in domestic violence prevention and control.

5. Inspecting and checking the enforcement of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control.

6. Conducting international cooperation on prevention and control of domestic violence acts in line with the laws.

7. Actively guiding review, analysis and consolidation of domestic violence  prevention and control activities, guiding the preparation of statistical reports on domestic violence prevention and control as well as guiding the review of practical experiences and replication of good models on domestic violence prevention and control.

8. Actively cooperating with the concerned institutions in editing and providing information on prevention and control of domestic violence acts.

Article 37. Responsibility of the Ministry of Health

1. Promulgating and enacting the regulations on taking in patients who are domestic violence victims and providing medical treatment to them at all medical institutions.

2. Guiding the Health Care Facilities to provide statistical reports on patients who are domestic violence victims

3. Promulgating the procedures of curing the alcoholic addicted symptoms.

Article 38. Responsibility of  the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs

            1. Instructing the prevention and control of domestic violence to be integrated into the programs of poverty reduction and hunger elimination, training and employment.

2. Giving guidance on assisting domestic violence victims at the Social Protection and Assistance Centers.

Article 39. Responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Training and other education institutions in the national education system

1. The Ministry of Education and Training shall instruct the measures to prevent and control domestic violence acts to be integrated into the academic curriculums appropriate to the requirement from the disciplines, subjects being taught at each educational level.

2. Schools and other trainin institutions in the national education system shall be obliged to integrate the knowledge of domestic violence prevention and control into their curricula.

Article 40. Responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communication and mass media agencies  

1. The Ministry of Information and Communication shall instruct the media and press agencies to diffuse and popularize the policies and Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control.

2. The press and media agencies shall disseminate timely and accurate information on the policies and Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control..

Article 41. Responsibility of  the police, courts and investigating bodies

Police, courts and inspectors, within their duties and authority, shall be obliged to cooperate with the concerned organizations in protecting the rights and legitimate interests of domestic violence victims; actively preventing, timely discovering, stopping and dealing with any violations of the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control; coordinating and facilitating the State management agencies on domesic violence prevention and control to do statistical work on domestic violence cases.