Preventing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas
19/12/2022
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(binhthuan.gov.vn)
The Provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs has just issued a plan to
implement the project "Reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage
in ethnic minority areas" in the province.
The plan aims to
raise awareness and sense of responsibility of society, community and people on
abiding the laws, and changing the marriage behavior of ethnic minorities to
follow the provisions of the law on marriage and family, suitable with the
customs and cultural practices of the ethnic groups, preventing and limiting
child marriage and consanguineous marriage, contributing to improve the quality
of the population and human resources in the province's ethnic minorities.
To implement this project,
the Provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will organize the propaganda
and dissemination of the law on marriage to limit child marriage and
consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas in the province. In which,
focusing on widely propagating the Law on Marriage and Family; Law Children;
Law on prevention of domestic violence; Law on Gender Equality; Law on
population and family; Law on prevention of drugs, prostitution, etc. At the
same time, propagandizing and mobilizing the compatriots to abolish outdated
customs in marriage and family that still exist in some ethnic minorities in
the localities.
In addition, the
Provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs also cooperates with
localities to strengthen inspection work to promptly detect and handle cases of
violations of the law on marriage and family in order to reduce child marriage and
consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas.
Nguyễn Phương