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Introduction:
The End Violence Against Children (EVAC) program is a five-year global initiative launched by World Vision to fortify protections, ignite community movements and eradicate violence against vulnerable children by 2021. Violence against children takes many forms that include, physical, sexual and mental violence, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, harm or abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor, cyber abuse and other harmful practices.
Given that the Asia Pacific region faces an overwhelming number of children…
Objective
There are limited studies which investigate the perceived needs and wellbeing of parents caring for their children with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This qualitative study uniquely explored the experiences and cultural factors of Vietnamese parents caring for children with a disability in multicultural Australia.
Methods
The study recruited Vietnamese parents who were attending a culturally and linguistically oriented support group in Sydney. The Carers’ and Users’ Expectations of Services (Carer version) was used to examine the…
Summary
Background
Unsettled infant behaviours are a common source of concern for new parents and have been associated with perinatal common mental disorders amongst women in high-income settings. There is little evidence about how unsettled infant behaviours are understood and managed in low and lower-middle income countries. This study aimed to describe caregivers' understandings of, and responses to, unsettled infant behaviours in Vietnam and their family caregiving contexts.
Methods
Women who were mothers of infants aged 0–6 months were purposively…
This chapter explores issues of children’s agency and participation in anti-trafficking interventions with children trafficked for exploitative labor in Vietnam. In particular, the chapter focuses on the ways children leave labor trafficking situations through outside interventions in the form of rescue and its associated rehabilitation and reintegration programs offered to rescue victims.
The findings of this study reveal that the specificities of the local context, the counter-trafficking actors involved, and the sector in which trafficking takes place are all important to consider in…
The world is facing a hidden crisis in childcare. That crisis is leaving millions of children without the support they need, with damaging consequences for their future. It is also having severe impacts on three generations of women – on mothers, grandmothers and daughters.
There is an urgent need to solve the global care crisis to improve the lives of both women and children and to grow economies. There are 671 million children under five in the world today. Given labour force participation rates that exceed 60% globally, a large number of these children…
This study, coordinated by the United Nations Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking, draws findings from in-depth interviews with 252 trafficked persons about their experiences of (re)integration, including successes and challenges, as well as future plans and aspirations. The trafficked persons interviewed for this study came from all six countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS): Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The study included men, women and children, trafficked for various forms of forced labour, sexual exploitation, begging and/or forced…
This country care review includes the Concluding Observations for the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted as part of its examination of Vietnam’s combined third and fourth periodic reports at the 60th Session of the Committee held between 9 May and 15 June 2012. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues are highlighted.
HIV vulnerability refers to the factors that make it more likely that an individual or group will be infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Reducing HIV vulnerability thus often entails the improvement of structural elements in an individual’s context or environment. Promoting correct knowledge about HIV and STIs is the easiest part, and many organizations focus on education-based interventions. It has been widely recognized, however, that factors like gender (i.e. being a woman or a man, being homosexual or heterosexual), poverty or access to education have an equally important influence on…
The world’s governments have promised to provide improved protection to children in difficult circumstances and tackle the root causes leading to such circumstances. Failure to act – to back up the good intention with practical measures that bring about a safer world for children – really does not honour the world’s promise to the child, nor the promise and potential of the child. In ten years, will the Secretary General of the United Nations again need to say to the children of the world, “We have failed you”?
Children at Risk is a follow-up to World Vision’s earlier…
Illuminating many of the observations and conclusions from the UNICEF State of the World’s Children report on children with disabilities, the New Straits Times has published an article on the state of children with disabilities in Vietnam. According to the article, Vietnam has some of the highest rates of child disability in the world, which it attributes to the nation’s legacy of decades of war and particularly to the country’s exposure to the defoliant “Agent Orange” used in warfare. The article states that up to three million Vietnamese people were exposed to dioxin in Agent…