Communications on child labour prevention and reduction stepped up
VOV.VN -The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA),in collaboration with Save the Children International (SCI) and Ho Chi Minh City’s Association of Protection of Child Right, has held a conference on enhancing the dissemination work on child protection and child labour prevention.
According to the Ministry, recent years has seen the legal system and policies related to child labour gradually improve, whilst the prevention and reduction of child labour has received an increasing attention from Party committees, authorities, ministries, and sectors. Indeed, this issue has welcomed engagement from relevant organisations, businesses, and society as a whole.
The second national survey on child labour, which was conducted in 2018 by the MoLISA, highlights that the rate of child labourers from five to 17 years old dropped from 9.6% in 2012 to 5.4% in 2018, a figure 2% lower than the average Asia-Pacific rate and over 4% lower than the global average.
This has therefore created favourable conditions in which the nation can participate in the signing of trade agreements, whilst strengthening its global integration and international co-operation in the prevention and reduction of child labour.
However, Dang Hoa Nam, director of the MoLISA’s Department for Child Affairs, stated that there remains child labourers in the agricultural sector and places where it is difficult to interfere in. Indeed, in some places the awareness of officials, employers, parents, and child caregivers remains limited.
Therefore, Nam underlined the necessity of enhancing dissemination work, especially relating to the position and importance of ensuring the implementation of child rights within the community. He also underlined the irreplaceable role and responsibility of both parents and families in child labour prevention.
According to the department, the Vietnamese Programme on Prevention and Reduction of Child Labour for the 2021 to 2025 period, with a vision towards 2030, aims to reduce the child labour rate to 4.9% by 2025 and 4.5% by 2030. It also strives to improve the consciousness of officials and teachers to 90%, whilst providing knowledge on this issue for 70% of parents, caregivers, and children.