On November 27, the Ministry of Public Security and UN Women opened a photo exhibition and legal propaganda campaign on the occasion of the month of action on gender equality and prevention and response to gender-based violence at the People's Public Security Museum.
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| Delegates cut the ribbon to open the Photo Exhibition and legal propaganda on the occasion of the month of action on gender equality and prevention and response to gender-based violence. (Source: UN Women) |
At the ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Ms. Christine Arab, Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) for Asia-Pacific delivered speeches and cut the ribbon to open the exhibition.
The event was attended by 100 delegates leading functional units of the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Information and Communications; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; social organizations; media agencies; representatives of the Board of Directors of Museums in the Armed Forces Museum system and representatives of foreign diplomatic agencies and agencies under the United Nations (UN) in Vietnam.
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| The exhibition’s images are presented in a positive light to encourage women and girls who have experienced violence to seek support from the police. (Source: UN Women) |
The Vietnamese Government has chosen November 15 to December 15 as the month of action for gender equality and prevention and response to gender-based violence. This is a peak month of action with important media events, creating positive effects, attracting the attention and response of people, communities and agencies and organizations, contributing to raising awareness, changing behavior, and narrowing the gender gap in most areas.
The photo exhibition with 63 photos, inspired by the reality that 63% of married women have experienced violence in their lifetime, of which less than 10% sought help according to the 2nd National Survey on Violence Against Women in 2019 (conducted by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the General Statistics Office and the United Nations Population Fund funded by the Australian government), emphasizes the important role of the People's Public Security force in protecting women and children from gender-based violence.
The exhibition’s images are presented in a positive light to encourage women and girls who have experienced violence to seek help from the police. This is the first exhibition in Vietnam on this topic, lasting two weeks, with free admission from November 27 to December 10, 2024.
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| The event is in response to the Month of Action for Gender Equality and Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence. (Source: UN Women) |
On the sidelines of the exhibition opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc To had a courtesy meeting with Ms. Christine Arab, Director of UN Women Asia-Pacific region.
At the reception, the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security welcomed the efforts and appreciated the role of the United Nations in general and UN Women in particular in setting global standards on gender equality and implementing activities that truly benefit women and girls around the world.
Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To affirmed that the Ministry of Public Security is committed to continuing to effectively contribute to the common efforts in implementing the major orientations of UN Women as well as the UN's overall policy on promoting gender equality and women's empowerment after Vietnam was elected to the UN Women Executive Council for the 2025-2027 term.
On the UN Women side, Ms. Christine Arab affirmed that UN Women is ready to support the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security in enhancing capacity and implementing initiatives related to preventing and responding to gender-based violence, as well as realizing the national action program on women, peace and security; expressing the desire to make cooperation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security a model at the national, regional and international levels.
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| Deputy Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc To received Ms. Christine Arab, UN Women Regional Director for Asia-Pacific. (Source: UN Women) |
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