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The situation of child marriage in the province is mainly in remote communes, remote areas, and ethnic minority areas. Faced with this situation, the Party Committee, government and socio-political organizations at all levels have strengthened solutions to propagate and prevent child marriage, such as: Organizing the distribution of propaganda leaflets; communicating at schools; organizing competitions to learn about the Law on Marriage and Family.
Na Hang is a mountainous, remote district of Tuyen Quang province, with a population of more than 10,644 households with 47,619 people, with 12 ethnic groups living, of which: Tay ethnic group accounts for 52.56%, Kinh 9.44%, Dao 27.64%, the rest are other ethnic groups. According to statistics, in recent years, the situation of early marriage and consanguineous marriage in the area has tended to decrease but is not sustainable. In the first 6 months of 2024, the number of early married couples in the district was 01 pair out of a total of 159 couples registered for marriage. The rate of early marriage in the first 6 months of 2024 was 0.62% compared to the total number of married couples.
Mr. Hoang Hung Chanh, Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Na Hang district, said: The reason for the above situation is that some ethnic minority households in remote areas live scatteredly, not concentratedly, some are not proficient in listening and writing common scripts, so they have limited access to documents and propaganda information. Some households have difficult economic conditions, lack essential material conditions to raise children, so there is still a situation of children dropping out of school, leading to early marriage...
In the coming time, the district will continue to promote propaganda work, focusing on high-risk youth and minors. In particular, it is necessary to organize households to sign a commitment not to violate child marriage and incestuous marriage, and strictly handle violations.
The task of managing, preventing and avoiding early marriage and incestuous marriage is still very difficult. The participation of all sectors and levels is very necessary. In particular, promoting propaganda to raise people's awareness in complying with the Law on Marriage and Family, eliminating backward customs in marriage needs to be implemented regularly. Thereby, raising awareness, changing behavior in marriage and family, gradually reducing and eventually pushing back early marriage and incestuous marriage in ethnic minority areas, contributing to improving the quality of population and human resources.
According to statistics from the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Tuyen Quang province, in the period of 2021-2023, the rate of child marriage in ethnic minority areas tends to decrease gradually. In the locality, ethnic minority and mountainous areas (EM&MN) in the province have 12,197 married couples, of which 390 are child married couples, accounting for 3.2% of the total number of married couples. The decrease in the period of 2021-2023 is 0.4%. In the first quarter of 2024, there were 31 child married couples.
Although the work of preventing and combating child marriage and consanguineous marriage has always been of interest to all levels of government and sectors, with special attention paid to propaganda and education to raise people's awareness of the consequences of child marriage... However, the rate of child marriage in ethnic minority communes in the province is still high.
To reduce this situation, it is necessary to strengthen leadership, management and enhance the responsibility of Party committees, authorities and mass organizations in implementing the work of caring for, educating and protecting children, especially children in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Focus on promoting and innovating methods of propaganda and education on the work of caring for, educating and protecting children.
Effectively implement the integration of the National Target Program (NTP) on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas and other programs to promote socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas. Strengthen coordination with relevant departments, branches and agencies to organize propaganda activities, disseminate laws, provide information, communication, consultation, support... to ensure comprehensiveness, synchronization and effectiveness, to raise awareness and change the behavior of ethnic minority people in implementing legal regulations. From the province to the grassroots, focus on inspection and supervision to detect and prevent subjects at risk of early marriage; strengthen State management of marriage and family work; strictly handle violations of early marriage and consanguineous marriage according to the provisions of law.
Implementing Sub-project 2, Project 9 of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas in 2024, in early November 2024, the Na Hang District Culture, Information and Sports Center coordinated with the District Ethnic Minority Department and the People's Committees of Thanh Tuong, Thuong Giap, Thuong Nong, Con Lon, Khau Tinh, and Da Vi communes to organize a comprehensive propaganda program "Reducing the situation of early marriage and incestuous marriage in ethnic minority areas" in villages and hamlets, attracting a large number of people to watch and cheer.
This is an activity to promote propaganda work to help people raise awareness of the Party's policies and the State's laws and policies on population work; marriage and family; reproductive health care, thereby having a sense of self-consciousness to comply with the provisions of the Law on marriage and family.
Continue to effectively implement the Project "Reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority and mountainous areas" in Tuyen Quang province, thereby contributing to promoting socio-economic development, improving the quality of life of people and ending the vicious cycle of poverty, ignorance, and low population quality.
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