In order to reduce early marriage and consanguineous marriage (TH&HNCHT), in recent times, Phuoc Son district (Quang Nam province) has mobilized the participation of the entire system, in which promoting the role of leaders, the role of the propaganda team and especially the coordination with schools and organizations to join hands to push back this evil. Thanks to that, the situation of consanguineous marriage has ended, early marriage has decreased significantly. Collecting the number of enterprises and cooperatives processing agricultural and forestry products in communes of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas is the content of the survey on the socio-economic situation of 53 ethnic minorities. From this data, ministries, branches and localities will assess the current situation, thereby having solutions to attract businesses to invest in the field of agricultural and forestry processing, exploiting the maximum potential and advantages of agriculture and forestry according to the value chain in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. General Secretary To Lam emphasized the need to urgently and actively implement the summary of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW and carry out a revolution in arranging, organizing and streamlining the apparatus of the political system. This is a particularly important task, not only a matter of scale or quantity but more deeply, it is necessary to create a qualitative change in the operation of the political system. Recently, dozens of households in Dak Long commune, Dak Ha district, Kon Tum province are facing flooding and landslides due to water storage activities of Dak Psi 6 Hydropower Plant. Although people have repeatedly petitioned the authorities, Dak Psi 6 Hydropower Investment Joint Stock Company has not yet had a plan to compensate for the damage. Implementing the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for people in the area, Lao Cai province strives that by September 2025, the whole province will complete housing support for 8,227 households with meritorious services to the revolution, relatives of martyrs, poor and near-poor households. In particular, Bao Thang New Rural District is determined to be the locality that will complete the elimination of temporary houses in 2024. With their enthusiasm and responsibility, in recent years, the prestigious people in Phuoc Son District (Quang Nam Province) have made many positive contributions to the socio-economic development of the district. They are typical examples of economic development, a bridge to propagate the policies and guidelines of the Party and State to the people, especially in mobilizing people to respond to the implementation of national target programs (MTQG), push back bad customs, and join hands to preserve and promote the cultural values of their compatriots. To clarify this issue, the reporter of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper had an interview with Mr. Nguyen Van Bang - Head of the Ethnic Department of Phuoc Son district. Recognizing the role and importance of culture, in recent years, the Party Committee and authorities at all levels of Nam Nhun district (Lai Chau) have paid attention to comprehensively leading and directing the tasks of preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values of ethnic groups, in which special attention has been paid to propaganda to serve the conservation of the "Mung moi lua" festival (Chi le xa xa lam me) of the Mang ethnic group. In order to reduce early marriage and incestuous marriage (TH&HNCHT), in recent times, Phuoc Son district (Quang Nam province) has mobilized the participation of the entire system, in which the role of leaders, the role of the propaganda team and especially the coordination with schools and organizations to join hands to push back this social evil. Thanks to that, the situation of incestuous marriage has ended, child marriage has decreased significantly. The summary news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper, on November 29, has the following notable information: Long An - Shining Aspiration of the Vam River. Five-color cake - Unique specialty of the Cao Lan people. Where the Ba Na cultural identity is preserved and promoted. Along with other news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. On December 1, General Secretary To Lam had a phone call with Comrade Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Currently, Cao Bang province still has some remote areas without national grid electricity, no telephone signal, etc. This affects production, life and people's need to access information. Mr. Dong Van Thanh, Chairman of Hau Giang Provincial People's Committee was elected to hold the position of Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term. On the afternoon of December 1, the Standing Committee of Lang Son Provincial Party Committee convened a special meeting of the Provincial Party Committee on the election of the Secretary of the 17th Lang Son Provincial Party Committee, term 2020-2025 and the election of additional members of the Inspection Committee of the 17th Lang Son Provincial Party Committee, term 2020-2025. 2025. On December 1, in Hai Lang commune, the Duc Ong Hoang Can Temple Festival - San Diu Ethnic Culture and Sports Festival of Tien Yen district in 2024 took place; receiving the Decision and awarding the Certificate of Announcement of the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Soong Co Folk Performing Art of San Diu Ethnic Group in Quang Ninh province.
Raising awareness for people
According to the Ethnic Affairs Department of Phuoc Son district, in order to push back the TH&HNCHT, the locality has made efforts in many diverse forms, mainly raising people's awareness and understanding. Because, when people's awareness is raised, they will be aware of the consequences of this problem, thereby changing their behavior and thinking, then only then can this problem be stopped.
Therefore, in recent times, in addition to organizing conferences, seminars, printing leaflets and brochures to distribute to people, the District Ethnic Affairs Department has also gone door-to-door, checking each person to propagate and mobilize. Identifying adolescents as the main target group related to early marriage, the Department has coordinated with schools, organizations and units in the area to organize law dissemination campaigns, competitions such as: Golden Bell, organizing extracurricular activities to change topics... to equip students with legal knowledge on preventing early marriage.
Accordingly, in 2024 alone, the Department coordinated with communes and towns to organize 16 training conferences to propagate TH&HNCHT for people, village and commune cadres and prestigious people, village elders, village chiefs...; developed an interdisciplinary plan with related units, such as: Schools, Medical Centers, organized 13 golden bell competitions for students of minor age to propagate, educate, and raise awareness in preventing TH&HNCHT; distributed thousands of leaflets, propaganda handbooks...
Previously, in the period of 2021 - 2023, Phuoc Son district has coordinated with departments, branches, and organizations of the district, communes, and towns in the area to promote the implementation of the Project to reduce the situation of TH&HNCHT in the district in the period of 2021 - 2025 and the Project to reduce the situation of TH&HNCHT in ethnic minority areas in Phuoc Son district. After 3 years of implementation, Phuoc Son has promoted the total strength of individuals and collectives to join hands to push back the problem, achieving positive results.
Mr. A Lang Ngoc - Deputy Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Phuoc Son district, said: Thanks to the good implementation of propaganda work, the rate of child marriage in the area has decreased sharply. In particular, for the Project on reducing child marriage, in addition to the profound direction of the authorities at all levels, the role of village elders, village chiefs, prestigious people, and collaborators has also been strongly promoted in propaganda, education, and mobilization of cases at risk of child marriage in the locality to understand the consequences of this problem and give it up.
The relevant departments and branches of the district also attach the responsibility as members of the Steering Committee of the Project to integrate with their units' professional activities to propagate the reduction of child marriage, such as: Law on Marriage and Family, Law on Gender Equality, Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence, population and family planning, adolescent reproductive health care...
“The participation of the entire political system has partly awakened the sense of self-awareness and responsibility of each individual and each family to voluntarily comply and minimize the occurrence of TH&HNCHT in their families. At the same time, through propaganda work, it has helped ethnic minorities in particular and local people in general to have a fuller awareness of the consequences and implications of this problem for individuals, families and society; thereby, there has been a change in behavior that contributes to reducing TH&HNCHT in the locality,” Mr. Ngoc added.
The whole system is involved.
Currently, Phuoc Son Ethnic Affairs Department is conducting training conferences for the propaganda team including commune and village officials, village elders, prestigious people... to promote propaganda work in the coming time. At the same time, the Department also actively coordinates with localities in disseminating legal education, raising awareness for people, especially local youth. In addition, continue to coordinate with local schools to organize programs and competitions on legal knowledge, with priority given to the Law on Marriage and Family and gender equality.
Mr. Vo Duc An - Vice Principal of Phuoc Son Ethnic Minority High School, said: In the past time, the school has also actively coordinated with the District Ethnic Affairs Department and related agencies to promote propaganda and mobilize students to prevent and combat child marriage. In addition, the school has also established clubs to teach life skills and provide psychological counseling to students during extracurricular activities, in order to equip them with legal knowledge.
“In order to minimize the situation of students getting married early, the school regularly conducts propaganda and educational activities to help students clearly recognize the consequences of this. Currently, the school maintains two clubs: “Female students towards the future” and “Psychological counseling and life skills” to help students have a place to play outside of school hours, equip them with many life skills, and help them gain more knowledge on the way to the future,” Mr. An added.
Mr. Tran Dinh Sach - a prestigious person in Kham Duc town, said: With his role and responsibility, in the past time, he and the prestigious people and village officials have increased propaganda and mobilized people to prevent child marriage. "Thanks to timely knowledge being provided to people, especially young people, the situation of child marriage in the area has gradually ended. In the coming time, we will continue to promote and strengthen the integration of propaganda to prevent child marriage in village and hamlet meetings," said Mr. Sach.
Regarding the goals for the coming time, Mr. A Lang Ngoc - Deputy Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Phuoc Son district, said: Although the rate of child marriage has decreased sharply, it is still complicated. One of the reasons leading to this is the difficult socio-economic conditions in some communes and villages, especially in ethnic minority areas, which more or less affects their awareness and access to information. Some people do not know that child marriage is a violation of the law.
Next is the development of information technology, social networks, the introduction of foreign cultures, trial living, lack of sexual experience; some students due to poor academic performance, being far from their families, and being interested in the opposite sex at a young age, easily lead to early love affairs, and in some cases, unwanted pregnancies have forced them to drop out of school, leading to early marriage. The coordination between schools and parents is sometimes not regular, parents still entrust the management and education of their children to the school, so sometimes they do not have time to encourage and remind...
With the goal of basically ending child marriage by the end of 2025, the locality has made constant efforts in propaganda and mobilization work for the people. In particular, special attention is paid to promoting the role of the Fatherland Front, Youth Union, Women's Union, village elders, village chiefs, and prestigious people in ethnic minority areas to participate in propaganda and mobilization work to eliminate backward customs and prevent and combat child marriage.
Along with that, the Department also recommends that localities need to strengthen leadership, direction, management and enhance the responsibility of the government and mass organizations in implementing legal regulations on marriage and family; continue to include the goals and tasks of reducing the situation of TH&HNCHT in the Resolutions of Party committees, annual programs and action plans of local governments and mass organizations; strengthen inspection, promptly detect, prevent and handle violations of the law on marriage and family.
“In the coming time, the Department of Ethnic Minorities will step up propaganda and mobilization work for people, especially parents with children of teenage age and students, to minimize the occurrence of early marriage. At the same time, innovate propaganda methods and materials to be more suitable for each target and each region to be more effective. The Department also coordinates with departments, branches, organizations, schools, especially the grassroots propaganda team to strengthen propaganda work and disseminate knowledge to people,” Mr. Ngoc added.
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